On Sunday 19 March 2006 10:37, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 01:45:39AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Sunday 19 March 2006 01:22, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>> >Not directly amanda related, but affecting amanda.
>> >
>> >On two linux systems, SuSE 10.0 and FC4,
>> >I'm trying to use the distro's version of amanda.
>> >
>> >However I can't get mail delivered to the amanda user.
>> >It is not specific to amanda, seems to be any system user
>> >(i.e. a user with uid below 500 or some other number).
>> >Instead, mail addressed to amanda/lp/mysql/... are all
>> >delivered to root's mailbox.
>> >
>> >Gotta be a config param I've not found.
>>
>> Obvious Q Jon, who is the crontab entry mailing it to.
>
>"amanda".
>
>It is not the amanda config, nor an actual amanda problem.
>Any mail to any system user, from inside, from outside,
>mailed by software like amanda, or mailed using the mail
>program directly from the command line, ends up in roots
>mailbox.
>
>Interestingly it is on both the SuSE 10.0 and the FC4 boxes
>and one, I think, runs postfix while the other runs sendmail.

Odd.  And I'm fresh out of ideas.  Getting mail as root is normal for me 
since I normally run as root anyway.  But I'm slowly learning about 
other users on another of my machines. :)

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Cheers, Gene
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