Every night your system does the cron.daily routine and emails you a good deal of information to root@localhost; namely log highlights etc. This shows whos been logging in, and whos be "trying" to log in.

This will send "all" email directed to root@localhost to your specified email address..

Usage: (you must be root for this)

1. cd /root
2. vi .forward

type the following into .forward

root:youremail@yourdomain.com


3. chmod 755 .forward

All done.

Removal:

Simply remove the .forward file.

1. rm .forward

Regards,

Ryan

you may want to specify which MTA this is for, not all SMTP servers honour the .forward and even if they do there are different formats for these files.

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Agreed, you may also with to add in that you can set up similar redirects using /etc/aliases


I'll write a tutorial on exim 4 w/mysql support soon

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My appologies..

This works for using Sendmail as your MTA, I have not tested it with other MTAs.

Ryan

For folks running FreeBSD + Sendmail or any other MTA which uses the mailerconfig file you can do the following to get your root mail.


% vi or ee /etc/mail/aliases

Edit the entry for

# root: me@my.domain

Replace it with your email address.

root: foo@barfoo.com

Then save the file and type
% newaliases

You will see a message about success rebuild of the aliases db and you will be good to go from there.