On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 17:41 -0500, Foote, Bruce (OFT) wrote: > However, can I use mail to mail a log to a system user? That is, a > user specified in /etc/passwd?' Yes, just send it to the username: $ cat /var/log/syslog | mail root You might want to look at the logcheck package, if you just want reports of important messages. bma -- Benjamin A'Lee <http://benalee.co.uk/> Technical Officer, TermiSoc <http://termisoc.org/