Re: [CentOS] Changing Root E-Mail address

On 12/22/2010 4:53 PM, John R Pierce wrote:

On 12/22/10 2:24 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

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If you're running sendmail, put an alias in /root/.forward. That gets *all* root email forwarded to the appropriate account, not just cron jobs. It also doesn't require editing of system files such as /etc/aliases.

that's a borderline bizarre rationale. /etc/aliases is specifically intended for this, even has a sample line in it to forward root's mail.

I suppose it does have the advantage of not having to deal with .rpmsave or .rpmnew files if an update would ever modify the contents of /etc/aliases.