On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 09:50:55AM -0700, Chrisopher R Davis wrote: > I believe you can sort this out by editing an alias file somewhere - I'm > actually nowhere near a linux box to verify where it is - /etc/alias? > But there's a file out there that redirects mail to those system > accounts to root - you can remove the amanda entry from this file and be > good to go. I changed this about a year ago so my memory is a little fuzzy. > > 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. > >
Duh, I'm so used to aliases being in /etc/mail I never looked elsewhere. jl -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
