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 how to read root mail
Author: cbrace 
Date:   02-01-07 22:23

Hi all,

I recently installed 6.1 and I am slowly getting up to speed with it. A few times when I have logged in as root, it says "You have new mail", but when I enter "mail", it says "No mail for root". By means of "cat /var/mail/root" I can see that there are indeed some messages spooled. Why isn't the mail program displaying them?

Thanks.

--
Colin Brace
Amsterdam

Post Edited (02-01-07 17:24)
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 how to read root mail   new
cbrace 02-01-07 22:23 
 Re: how to read root mail   new
Dan 02-01-07 22:44 
 Re: how to read root mail   new
cbrace 02-01-07 23:12 
 Re: how to read root mail   new
Dan 03-01-07 00:32 
 Re: how to read root mail   new
cbrace 03-01-07 02:17 
 No getting mail for root   new
robi_cse2k 11-08-11 06:36 
 Re: No getting mail for root   new
Dan 11-08-11 11:50 
 Re: how to read root mail   new
Jim Trigg 19-01-07 19:25 


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