where is the system mail behaviour defined
my summary is perhaps a bit vague but here is more:
when I log in through a console (cntrl+alt+[1-6]) I get a message telling me I got mail, that's fine, 'cause I'm not a complete linux-noob so I issued the command:
$ mail
Now I see various mails complaining about trivial things like "samba had to restart due to segfaults", some kernel messages, mysql errors, etc
But where is this behaviour set/defined that the system can mail me when these errors occur?
syslog.conf doesn't hold any settings that are set that could cause the system to mail me.
It's purely an interest in linux that I want to know this, it's not bugging me or anything!
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