On Sunday 19 March 2006 10:37, Jon LaBadie wrote: >On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 01:45:39AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Sunday 19 March 2006 01:22, Jon LaBadie wrote: >> >Not directly amanda related, but affecting amanda. >> > >> >On two linux systems, SuSE 10.0 and FC4, >> >I'm trying to use the distro's version of amanda. >> > >> >However I can't get mail delivered to the amanda user. >> >It is not specific to amanda, seems to be any system user >> >(i.e. a user with uid below 500 or some other number). >> >Instead, mail addressed to amanda/lp/mysql/... are all >> >delivered to root's mailbox. >> > >> >Gotta be a config param I've not found. >> >> Obvious Q Jon, who is the crontab entry mailing it to. > >"amanda". > >It is not the amanda config, nor an actual amanda problem. >Any mail to any system user, from inside, from outside, >mailed by software like amanda, or mailed using the mail >program directly from the command line, ends up in roots >mailbox. > >Interestingly it is on both the SuSE 10.0 and the FC4 boxes >and one, I think, runs postfix while the other runs sendmail.
Odd. And I'm fresh out of ideas. Getting mail as root is normal for me since I normally run as root anyway. But I'm slowly learning about other users on another of my machines. :) -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
