On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 09:50:55AM -0700, Chrisopher R Davis wrote:
> I believe you can sort this out by editing an alias file somewhere - I'm 
> actually nowhere near a linux box to verify where it is - /etc/alias?  
> But there's a file out there that redirects mail to those system 
> accounts to root - you can remove the amanda entry from this file and be 
> good to go.  I changed this about a year ago so my memory is a little fuzzy.
> 
> 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.
> >

Duh,

I'm so used to aliases being in /etc/mail
I never looked elsewhere.

jl
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