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[MjrGaelic]

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

[eBoundary]

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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[Winkie]

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


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[MjrGaelic]

My appologies..

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

Ryan

[Cirrostratus]

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.