Category Archives: sysadmin

How to forward emails from one account to another with Postfix

This is a really small post ;)

Assuming we talking about Linux, go to the home directory of the account from which you want to redirect mail, and create a file named .forward. This file will be read by Postfix, and the mail will be delivered to the addresses contained in the file.

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Anacron not running?

I’m kinda a security paranoid…and so, in my VPS I wanted to set up Logwatch and Tripwire to send me emails.

(By the way, the mentioned apps are two very good security apps…)

This was what made me discover that the scripts inside /etc/cron.daily/ were not running (thus, no emails from tripwire and logwatch). After much reviewing my configuration for those two apps, and almost giving up, I