At 04:34 PM 5/20/2002, you wrote:
Hi Phil, > Mac, > > The only thing that would worry me is there are other internal things that > sometimes decide to report things to admin via email and these may not now > be able to report correctly. > Time will tell I guess, it might be interesting to try and force some sort > of error that would normally result in an error email and see if it still > works for this site. > > Phil Yup done that and it worked okay for me. Obviously any errors that would have normally have been sent to the server admin as opposed to this new site admin I will not get, but thats cool as I dont think that will equate to much and is not really server specific more site specific wouldnt you agree.. Mac
No! The server will report to admin that there is a problem with siteY. Now on your machine the server error will got to the site admin for say siteX. Is siteX site admin really going to take care of siteY's problems? When the server /root gets full, you what siteX's site admin knowing the server is about to hose. When the system is overheating, you want siteX's site admin to take care of it right?
Get real. There are a set of reserved names and alias' in Linux. These are for the server. Who know what won't work for you anymore. Maybe siteX's site admin can now lock you out. That will be funny. Ask him to change is password and see what happens. Oh yea, it is does change admin, it is also changing root. Congratulation, someone is bound to agree with you, like Paul.