On Friday 25 May 2007, zephod@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I wanted to have the logwatch cron results mailed to me instead of root > so I edited /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf to add this line: > > MailTo=SBlackwell > > Just for a sanity check > $ whoami > SBlackwell > $ uname -n > mylocalmachine > > <not really but just to show I checked that it matches the mail message> > > but root keeps getting returned mail saying > > <snip> > > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- > sblackwell > (reason: 550 5.1.1 <sblackwell@mylocalmachine>... User unknown) > (expanded from: sblackwell) > > <snip> > > The thing that stikes me is that my user name got changed from > SBlackwell in the conf file to sblackwell in the mail message. > > Anybody else seeing this? Any comments? > Have you edited /etc/aliases on the line (near the bottom) that defines who should receive root's mail? And did you remember to run 'newaliases' after you'd made the change? Anne
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