> When running in text mode, I have noticed before that when I log in as > root, I see the notification that I have new mail. I figured it was > system mail, and read through some of it, but I am curious as to what > generates it and why? I know one time I forgot to su before running a > command and my computer told me it was going to "report" me, which I > thought was pretty funny. What is cron? I see cron.daily and cron.weekly > reports also. > > I can read the e-mail though the console, but can I configure it like a > regular mailbox in Kmail or Mozilla when running in graphical mode? You should set an alias for root to an actual human account on the system. /etc/aliases root: yourusername then just rebuild the aliases.db database. -Mike
