From: Axel Siebenwirth <axel@hh59.org>
To: Arthur Othieno <a_othieno@hotmail.com>
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Unknown User/Alias 'Marc'
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 12:13:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020819101331.GA811@diamond.ipht-jena.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OE73lmmlQ080Gxw8Zw500012266@hotmail.com>
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-19 10:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-16 4:43 setting up X under Slackware Matthew Stapleton
2002-08-16 6:10 ` Ray Olszewski
2002-08-16 13:12 ` lawson_whitney
2002-08-16 18:49 ` pa3gcu
2002-08-16 19:03 ` Unknown User/Alias 'Marc' Arthur Othieno
2002-08-19 10:13 ` Axel Siebenwirth [this message]
2002-08-19 14:48 ` Ray Olszewski
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-08-19 15:27 Arthur Othieno
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