Not directly amanda related, but affecting amanda.
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.

Sunday 19 March 2006 01:22, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>Not directly amanda related, but affecting amanda.
>
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.

Q Jon, who is the crontab entry mailing it to.

Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 01:45:39AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
Sunday 19 March 2006 01:22, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>Not directly amanda related, but affecting amanda.
>
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.

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.

Sunday 19 March 2006 10:37, Jon LaBadie wrote:
Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 01:45:39AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>Sunday 19 March 2006 01:22, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>>Not directly amanda related, but affecting amanda.
>>
>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.
>>
>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.

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. :)

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:

Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 01:45:39AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:

>
>Sunday 19 March 2006 01:22, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>
>>
Not directly amanda related, but affecting amanda.

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.


>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