Yesterday, Ray Bowles gleaned this insight:
> Ok that seemed to clear that up but brought about another problem. Now all my
> mail is going to root even when addressed to Ray. In order to make it easier
> to help me (and I really appreciate it) I have three separate users Shannon,
> Ray and Page all want email addresses like [EMAIL PROTECTED] what do I need to set
> them up. They are not aliases they are separate people. I've tried Oreilly's
> latest Sendmail book and the docs online I'm getting confused.
I'm guessing that you have 'ray' aliased to root in /etc/aliases, and that
you're reading your mail as root. Bad Ray <smack>!
You need to un-alias ray in /etc/aliases, and then create seperate user
accounts for shannon, ray, and page, and they can read their mail by
logging in and running some mail client. You can add accounts via the
useradd command (see the man page) or via RedHat's GUI, or via Linuxconf.
Details of how to do this are in RedHat's documentation. If you don't
have the printed manuals, they're most likely installed on your system in
/usr/doc in HTML format (and probably others).
If you don't have them installed, the rpms are:
rhl-gsg-6.1en-2.noarch.rpm
rhl-ig-6.1en-1.noarch.rpm
rhl-rg-6.1en-1.noarch.rpm
(replace 6.1 with your version of the distro)
Incidentally, also on the CD are the System Administrator's Guide, and the
Network Administrator's Guide, both of which are excellent reading for
Linux newbies. The RPMs are:
nag-1.0-4.noarch.rpm
sag-0.6-3.noarch.rpm
If you can't find the files once they're installed, you can use the rpm
command to find them, � la:
rpm -ql nag
Or if you want to see where they will go before you install them, you can
use rpm like this (in the directory where the .rpm file lives):
rpm -qpl nag-1.0-4.noarch.rpm
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