From: Dave Martini 1 (martini@raider.llnl.gov)
Date: Wed May 11 2005 - 16:33:27 EDT
On my Solaris 9 box when I send mail to root at the machine
I receive the message but I'm not sure why I get the message.
I don't have an /etc/mail/aliases file defined on this machine.
Normally I understand that mail sent to root at the machine goes
to where you've defined root to go to in the /etc/mail/aliases file, i.e.
root: martini1@llnl.gov
but I don't have this defined or this file on this host.
I don't have root defined in my nisplus tables for mail aliases.
#niscat mail_aliases |grep root
returns nothing.
This is a nisplus client.
Any thoughts on how root mail is getting to me?
Thank You.
Dave Martini
LLNL
On other hosts I have /etc/mail/aliases defined this way with no root
entry other than postmaster
# more /etc/aliases
# Copyright (c) 1983-2001 by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
# All rights reserved.
#
#ident "@(#)aliases 1.14 01/08/27 SMI"
##
# Aliases can have any mix of upper and lower case on the left-hand side,
# but the right-hand side should be proper case (usually lower)
#
# >>>>>>>>>> The program "newaliases" must be run after
# >> NOTE >> this file is updated for any changes to
# >>>>>>>>>> show through to sendmail.
##
# The following alias is required by the mail protocol, RFC 2821
# Set it to the address of a HUMAN who deals with this system's mail problems.
postmaster: root
# Alias for mailer daemon; returned messages from our MAILER-DAEMON
# should be routed to our local Postmaster.
MAILER-DAEMON: postmaster
# General redirections for pseudo accounts.
bin: root
daemon: root
system: root
toor: root
uucp: root
# Well-known aliases.
manager: root
dumper: root
operator: root
# trap decode to catch security attacks
decode: root
# Aliases to handle mail to programs or files, eg news or vacation
nobody: /dev/null
# Sample aliases:
# Alias for distribution list, members specified here:
#staff:wnj,mosher,sam,ecc,mckusick,sklower,olson,rwh@ernie
# Alias for distribution list, members specified elsewhere:
#keyboards: :include:/usr/jfarrell/keyboards.list
# Alias for a person, so they can receive mail by several names:
#epa:eric
#######################
# Local aliases below #
#######################
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