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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > 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? > > Don't think so. The folder does contain mail. ---- the 'mail' command only reads from /var/spool/mail/USERNAME in which case, this would be root. It is a single mbox file and there are no 'folders' If there are mail folders in /root, the mail command wouldn't normally access this mail but I believe you can specify a file other than the users default mail spool... mail -f /root/mbox mail -f /some_path/some_file Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
