Re: [cobalt-users] From address in system mail messages

["Tony Clements" <t..clements@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bill/William
Your post is right on target!
All I would like is some help from users that have insight on this issue.
Thanx for your assist.
Tony Clements

----- Original Message -----
From: "William J.A. Brillinger" <billy@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 12:45 iceman
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] From address in system mail messages


>
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "William J.A. Brillinger" <billy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 12:14 iceman
> >Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] From address in system mail messages
> >
> >
> > > At 06:20 PM 16/06/02 -0400, you wrote:
> > > >[root /root]# hostname -f
> > > >www.ice-net.ca
> > > >[root /root]#
> > >
> > > Cannot find server or DNS Error
> > >
> > > Address lookup for ns1.uunet.ca failed: Try again
> > > DNS query for ice-net.ca failed: Address not available
> > >
> > > You have bigger problems than your return address :)
> > >
> > > - Bill
> > >
> At 12:30 AM 17/06/02 -0400, you wrote:
> >Well its not a public server yet and I am well aware of this.
> >The problem is as stated before I receive email on multi Raq systems.
> >they all state from root in the email.
> >I would not prefer to rewrite crontab and other software such as
chrootkit
> >to know what server mailed me.
> >Advice such as RTFM is not truly advice since this isn't covered in the
> >Linux man pages or the Cobalt OS 6.0 man.
> >Tony Clements
>
> Re ordered to comply with top-posting police :)
>
> Sorry, Tony, I hadn't understood the issue.
> My raq4's return the expected response of admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> I'm a little too green to be of more help than that and RTFM type replies
> irritate me too. This groups could lighten-up a bit and try getting back
to
> being helpful - I have appreciated many helpful posts on this list but the
> chaff is getting a little overwhelming.
>
> Cheers,
> - Bill
>
>
>
>
> ---------------------------------
> William J.A. Brillinger
> Precision Design Co.
>
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