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Aliases
General Information
Get messages mailed locally to root, sent to your email.
Checklist
- Distro(s): Any
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