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From: rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: root's mail???
Date: 23 Jun 1997 11:23:48 -0700
Organization: fidgety systems administrators gmbh
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Message-ID: <5omevk$83j$1@bofh.noc.best.net>
References: <5ok7j5$dc5@quail.swcp.com>
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Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43400
In article <5ok7j5$dc5@quail.swcp.com>, Charlie Sorsby <crs@swcp.com> wrote:
>What must I do to read root's mail? I find that I can't do it with
>sudo and I can't do it when I actually su to root--all I get is my
>own mail. I must have something misconfigured but what?
You can log in as root, of course, or you can use "su -" to su to root.
man su(1) for more information.
rone
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