How does root get mail?

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#1

I’m installing Apache (it’s winning the contest, so far); I notice that mail (I assume these are alerts of some sort) are sent from Apache to root. But how/when does root see that mail? Surely I don’t have to set up some sort of email account, do I?

#2

Usually you forward root’s mail to the sysadmin’s normal mailbox. Edit /etc/aliases and edit the alias for root to:

root: somebody@somewhere.else

or it could also be a local mailbox

root: somebody

Then restart postfix and it will rehash /etc/aliases to /etc/aliases.db for postfix’s use.

#3

ken yap adjusted his/her AFDB on Saturday 08 Aug 2009 12:06 to write:

>
> Usually you forward root’s mail to the sysadmin’s normal mailbox. Edit
> /etc/aliases and edit the alias for root to:
>
> root: somebody@somewhere.else
>
> or it could also be a local mailbox
>
> root: somebody
>
> Then restart postfix and it will rehash /etc/aliases to /etc/aliases.db
> for postfix’s use.
>
>

What ken said,

but if you do not have it redirected you can open a console su to root and
run:

mail

you will be able to read the mail in the console.

HTH

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