On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 22:20 -0500, micheal wrote: > On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 18:44 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: > > At 1:28 AM -0500 10/3/05, micheal wrote: > > >On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 02:53 -0300, Franck Y wrote: > > >> Hi everyone, > > >> > > >> What are the main file (logs), that I sould check if the computer is > > >>going well > > >> . > > >> > > >> > > >> -- > > >> Franck > > >> > > > > > >basically all the log files are in /var/logs > > > > Logwatch sends an email to root each day summarizing anything it thinks is > > interesting (or rather, that it doesn't believe is uninteresting). You'd > > need to log in as root and read the mail; maybe someone here has a better > > approach. > > ____________________________________________________________________ > > TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> > > > > Here is what I have done. Edit /etc/aliases as root. Around the last > line of the file there is something similiar to > > # Person who should get root's mail > root: micheal > > I have it going to my local spool, however you can edit this with any > e-mail address you wish. > > After you are done. run the command newaliases as root. > > Now all you have to do is check the mail for the e-mail you have set up > as an 'alias' for root, and you are set. > > Micheal > I've done this to redirect mail to another, non Linux, computer which is on my network by sending it to dhwild@xxxxxxxxxxxxx The message actually arrives, attached to an error message which says that it should have a real email address rather than root@localhost. How do I arrange that, please?
