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From: roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [NetBSD] Q: sendmaild
Date: 26 Jan 1994 22:15:01 +0100
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In article <2i11bf$82n@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>,
centauri <centauri@peso.cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
>is there someone out there, who can tell me, how the sendmail.cf is to be set
>up. I would like to make my system send systemerror-messages to root instead
>of just puking them on the screen. 

Generally _mail_ messages won't go to the console. Messages generated by
programs by using syslog(3) may appear to the screen if your syslogd is
configured to do that.

man syslog.conf

>I imagine, that in order to get this fixed, I'll have to change my sendmaild
>and syslogd-configurations, but how ?!

/etc/syslog.conf is the file you want.

>cu Christian

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Ollivier ROBERT                          Ollivier.Robert@keltia.frmug.fr.net
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