Re: SMART error messages being sent to the wrong address

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Oct 3, 2023 at 9:32 PM Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> wrote:
>
> I'm running Debian/Bookworm on a headless server. The box has had a
> variety of roles and names. At one time it was called fanny after the
> groundbreaking rock band and because it had a lot of fans in it. This
> latter attribute led to it being made into a file server and renamed
> BigData.
>
> The problem I'm having is that SMART error messages are being sent to
> root@fanny.<my domain> instead of to me. /etc/aliases has all mail to
> root going to me, but because this addressed to root on a machine with a
> different name, it goes out and I only get the message when it bounces
> (because the machine name no longer exists).
>
> I can't find where the e-mail address is being set. Tracing down the
> smartmontools config files didn't turn up any obvious problems.
>
> Can anyone point in the right direction?

If Greg and Charles' suggestions do not work, I would grep for it.

    $ sudo su -
    $ grep -iIR fanny /etc

That should uncover places the old name shows up.

Jeff