On Tue, Oct 3, 2023 at 9:32 PM Gary Dale <g...@extremeground.com> wrote: > > I'm running Debian/Bookworm on a headless server. The box has had a > variety of roles and names. At one time it was called fanny after the > groundbreaking rock band and because it had a lot of fans in it. This > latter attribute led to it being made into a file server and renamed > BigData. > > The problem I'm having is that SMART error messages are being sent to > root@fanny.<my domain> instead of to me. /etc/aliases has all mail to > root going to me, but because this addressed to root on a machine with a > different name, it goes out and I only get the message when it bounces > (because the machine name no longer exists). > > I can't find where the e-mail address is being set. Tracing down the > smartmontools config files didn't turn up any obvious problems. > > Can anyone point in the right direction?
If Greg and Charles' suggestions do not work, I would grep for it. $ sudo su - $ grep -iIR fanny /etc That should uncover places the old name shows up. Jeff