On 4/14/05, Neal Wilkinson <forums.lists@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Matthew Miller wrote: > > >On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 02:05:05PM -0400, Neal Wilkinson wrote: > > > > > >>I have logged into console and it said root had new mail (a lot > >>actually) and I figured out how to read it there but how can I have it > >>sent to my normal e-mail client? > >> > >> > > > >edit /etc/aliases and change the root alias to point to your user account. > > > > > > > > > > > but how then will the mail program receive it? Don't I have to tell the > program to look for it? If you make this update, it will start forwarding root's mail to your account. To get the rest of the mail, cat root's mail file (/var/spool/mail/root) to your own. -- Ben Steeves _ bcs@xxxxxxxxxx The ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) ben.steeves@xxxxxxxxx against HTML e-mail X GPG ID: 0xB3EBF1D9 http://www.metacon.ca/bcs / \ Yahoo Messenger: ben_steeves
