At 08:03 PM 8/16/02 +0100, Arthur Othieno wrote: >Hello all. After a few weeks of lurking on the list I can finally turn to >you >for some quick advice. The other night as I was looking through my sendmail >aliases file (/etc/aliases), I noticed a perculiar line at the end of it >that read: > >--begin-- ># Person who should get root's mail >#root: marc >--end-- > >All I want to know is who is this user/alias marc? [rest deleted]
A (non-existant) example of a user. The line begins with a #, making it a comment line, not a functioning line. >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 >(Valhalla), Sendmail 8.11.6. The only ports open on the machine are 25/tcp >(Sendmail) and 6000/tcp (X11). No UDP ports open. And I don't connect to the >internet with this machine, it's just a dummy machine that sits there >waiting >for all things experimentation that may come my way ;-) I have attached a >copy of the /etc/aliases file for anyone to look at just in case. I didn't see an attachment. Anyway, attaching small files like this is one is a bad idea -- if we need to see them, it's easier (less work for most of us) if you put them in the body of your message. >Thank you >for your time... -- -------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, California, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
