I have replicated this problem using RHEL 3.0 and Fedora Core 1 & 2. My hosting partner, Rackspace, feels the problem is with the RHN applet but I'm not sure. Basically, if I SSH as root into my new system and run "up2date --configure --nox", item #25 is "Admin Email Address". It's always defaulted to root@localhost but I want it to be something else. No matter what I set that address to, it never emails me *anything* except to root@localhost. What is the point of this field? This applies when I run an update myself as well as when the rhn_check applet does its scheduled maintenance. This is a big one for people with dedicated servers. I think there should be a lot of people affected by this bug.
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