On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 17:03:18 -0700 Kevin Fries <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Go into /etc/crontab and there is a line in there: > MAILTO=root > You can change that to anything you want, something like: > MAILTO=admins@xxxxxxxxxxx > This works for all the cron jobs except logwatch. In the logwatch the > mailto address is set within the script, so you need to change it there. > Now, cron will not assume a local mailer is needed, and will forward > to the smtp server on your network. No more need for Sendmail at all! Now if we can get the Fedora guys thinking that setting this in up in the installer would be a good idea... :) Something like a checkbox with "Send system error messages to this user?" when the user account is created in firstboot. Then the installer could modify the necessary files. For a notebook/personal desktop install, I don't think sending mail to the root user is a very good idea, especially if the prevailing wisdom is for the user to never log in as root. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- * Charles Taylor <tomalek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> * Chemistry teacher, Linux enthusiast! -------------------------------------------------------------------- * Web: http://home.mindspring.com/~charletiv/ --------------------------------------------------------------------
