[CentOS] Changing Root E-Mail address
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Dec 22 19:11:55 UTC 2010
On 12/22/2010 12:58 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
>
>>>> If you are running the default sendmail, put an alias for root in
>>>> /etc/aliases and restart sendmail or run 'newaliases'.
>>>
>>> Or you can edit
>>>
>>> /etc/share/logwatch/scripts/logwatch.pl
>>>
>>> and change line 64
>>>
>>> $Config{'mailto'} = "root";
>> Exactly what I did earlier.
>
> I would strongly recommend using /etc/aliases and NOT editing
> logwatch.pl as any updates to logwatch will collide with your edit,
> leaving you with .rpmnew files to merge.
And, there may be other interesting/critical mail coming to root.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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