Thank you all for your time and comprehensive responses. I just wanted to get that cleared up though. Looks like i forgot to attach the said file, but that doesn't seem important now anyway! Thanks again.
Happy hacking... Arthur >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... > > > > To Follow The Path; Look To The Master; Follow The Master; Walk With The Master; See Through The Master; BECOME THE MASTER... --Zen-- _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx - 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
