From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Axel Siebenwirth Subject: Re: Unknown User/Alias 'Marc' Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 12:13:31 +0200 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20020819101331.GA811@diamond.ipht-jena.de> References: <20020816.094311.134670320.14.lawson_whitney@juno.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Arthur Othieno Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs