Hi Arthur!
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Arthur Othieno wrote:
> # Person who should get root's mail
> #root: marc
>
> All I want to know is who is this user/alias marc? A quick look at the
> /etc/passwd, shadow, group, gshadow... didn't turn up any results, which
> puzzles me. Funny thing is I get mail as root fine! I am running RedHat 7.3
Well it's quite simple.
1) the alias root -> marc is commented with a "#" so this isn't in effect
anyway.
2) if it would be active, mail would still go to user root since there is no
user marc
3) so leave it commented or replace marc with the user that you want to
receive emails for root
Regards,
Axel
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