Re: Problem re-directing root's email

2009-11-18 Thread /dev/rob0
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 07:56:40AM +0100, Ansgar Wiechers wrote: > On 2009-11-17 LuKreme wrote: > > Here's a How-To from about 2003? specifically showing > > /etc/postfix/aliases as the preferred and default setting. > > > > Without bothering to

Re: Problem re-directing root's email

2009-11-17 Thread Ansgar Wiechers
On 2009-11-17 LuKreme wrote: > On 17-Nov-2009, at 20:58, Sahil Tandon wrote: >> On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, LuKreme wrote: >>> My aliases has always been at /etc/postfix/aliases >> >> Now *that* is atypical. > > No, it's really not. Anyone who's been using postfix for a while is > quite likely to have t

Re: Problem re-directing root's email

2009-11-17 Thread LuKreme
On 17-Nov-2009, at 23:46, LuKreme wrote: > I first setup postfix in … 1999? 2000? Erm, confusion reins. It was late in 2002 with, iirc, a prerelease 2.x -- 'Are you Death?' IT'S THE SCYTHE, ISN'T IT? PEOPLE ALWAYS NOTICE THE SCYTHE. --The Fifth Elephant

Re: Problem re-directing root's email

2009-11-17 Thread LuKreme
On 17-Nov-2009, at 20:58, Sahil Tandon wrote: > On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, LuKreme wrote: >> My aliases has always been at /etc/postfix/aliases > > Now *that* is atypical. No, it's really not. Anyone who's been using postfix for a while is quite likely to have their alias file in the postfix folder. T

Re: Problem re-directing root's email

2009-11-17 Thread Sahil Tandon
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, LuKreme wrote: > On 17-Nov-2009, at 19:53, /dev/rob0 wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 07:26:34PM -0700, LuKreme wrote: > >> On 17-Nov-2009, at 15:56, Nicholas Robinson wrote: > >>> I altered the entry in /etc/aliases to > >> > >> /etc/postfix/aliases > > > > Why do you

Re: Problem re-directing root's email

2009-11-17 Thread Nicholas Robinson
For a while, for Fedora at least, /etc/postfix/aliases was the default location - or there was a link to /etc/aliases in /etc/postfix (or vice versa!). However, it returned to /etc/aliases some time ago. Presumably, some distros still put it in /etc/postfix and others in /etc? Thank you for all th

Re: Problem re-directing root's email

2009-11-17 Thread LuKreme
On 17-Nov-2009, at 19:53, /dev/rob0 wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 07:26:34PM -0700, LuKreme wrote: >> On 17-Nov-2009, at 15:56, Nicholas Robinson wrote: >>> I altered the entry in /etc/aliases to >> >> /etc/postfix/aliases > > Why do you suggest this? Typically the default value is: > "alias

Re: Problem re-directing root's email

2009-11-17 Thread /dev/rob0
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 07:26:34PM -0700, LuKreme wrote: > On 17-Nov-2009, at 15:56, Nicholas Robinson wrote: > > I altered the entry in /etc/aliases to > > /etc/postfix/aliases Why do you suggest this? Typically the default value is: "alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases, nis:mail.aliases" -- Off

Re: Problem re-directing root's email

2009-11-17 Thread LuKreme
On 17-Nov-2009, at 15:56, Nicholas Robinson wrote: > I altered the entry in /etc/aliases to /etc/postfix/aliases -- Han : This is not going to work. Luke: Why didn't you say so before? Han : I did say so before!

Re: Problem re-directing root's email

2009-11-17 Thread Wietse Venema
Nicholas Robinson: > Hi > > I'm trying to re-direct my root email to my external email address. See: http://www.postfix.org/STANDARD_CONFIGURATION_README.html#some_local Wietse

Problem re-directing root's email

2009-11-17 Thread Nicholas Robinson
Hi I'm trying to re-direct my root email to my external email address. I altered the entry in /etc/aliases to root: n...@external-address.co.uk Ran newaliases, reloaded postfix and tried sending an email to root The email gets sent to r...@bxxx-hxxx.co.uk where bxxx-hxxx.co.uk is the d