On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 12:49 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > David Niemi wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 12:06 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > > > >>David Niemi wrote: > >> > >>>>>Thanks for the tips, I tried it an the user still doesn't receive the > >>>>>messages from the cron jobs via aliases. Yes, I did verify that the > >>>>>name to receive the root email is correct and I did run newaliases. > > What's the output of: > # praliases | grep root | sort > > There should be a line: > > root:daven > > if you've set up the alias properly. > > If it's not there, what's the output of: > # grep daven /etc/aliases #$@&!! and a bunch of other 4 letter words, I just noticed that I hadn't removed the commenting "#" in front of the person to receive root's e-mail at the bottom! I don't know how many times I've looked at that line and didn't see anything wrong with it!!