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Aliases

General Information

Get messages mailed locally to root, sent to your email.

Checklist


Pre-Req

Configure your system's local email client to send correctly.

This is done using either postfix or sendmail.


Configure Aliases

Edit /etc/aliases

vim /etc/aliases
 
# Person who should get root's mail
root: myemail@provider.com

Run the newaliases command to update aliases

newaliases