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Re: Emailing the system messages to me



On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 00:36 -0400, Guillermo Garron wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a Debian Etch as my desktop PC, and i want to configure it so
> the system messages could be sent to my personal email, not to the
> root mailbox on that system, it has exim any ideas?
> 
> or I better install postfix?
> 
> best regards,

/etc/aliases

make the root alias like this:

root: guillermo.fedora@gmail.com

That should do it.
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