[CentOS] Changing Root E-Mail address

John R Pierce pierce at hogranch.com
Wed Dec 22 18:58:39 UTC 2010


>>> 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.





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