Root's Mail
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Fri May 23 21:16:33 UTC 2008
On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 12:09 -0700, Ed Warner wrote:
> Message: 6
> Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 14:15:05 -0400
> From: "Mark Haney"
> Subject: Re: Root's Mail
> To: "For users of Fedora"
> Message-ID: <483709A9.5080301 at ercbroadband.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="ISO-8859-1"
>
> Ed Warner wrote:
> > I can not retrieve root's mail by typing "mail" from a
> command prompt, either by logging in as root or su.
> > I have added my username as an alias for root but still not
> able. The folder for mail is there, just comes back as "no
> mail for root"
> > Any ideas?
> >
> >
>
> Uh, is it possible there is no mail for root?
>
>
> --
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>
>
> Mark Haney
> Sr. Systems Administrator
> ERC Broadband
> (828) 350-2415
>
> Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support
>
> Don't think so. The folder does contain mail.
1. If root is aliasewd to oyur user name you will get roots mail.
2. have you tried: mail -u, as root
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