On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 10:45 -0400, Jacques B. wrote: > Your solutions are either to setup a root cron job that runs a script > that copies the root mail file to a new name where a local user has > priviledge to read it (I copied it over and then did a send/receive > and got all of root's mail). Or you could create a new group and add > your unpriviledged user to it and then change ownership/priviledge on > the root mail file to allow that group to be able to read it. I haven't seen anybody mention the easy way: Read your /etc/aliases file, and put your username down the bottom where it gives you the example of how to direct mail from root to another user, then run the newaliases command that it tells you about at the top of that file. e.g. root: mike Or you can do it as root: Mike.McCarty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx if your SMTP server sends with a real domain name. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.5-76.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
