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From: reilly@zeta.org.au (Andrew Reilly)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: root's mail???
Date: 27 Jun 1997 00:51:00 GMT
Organization: Andrew and Catherine Reilly at home
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In article <33B0355C.46D1@watermarkgroup.com>,
Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com> writes:
>> crs@quail.swcp.com (Charlie Sorsby) writes:
>> >
>> > 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?
> There is an easy way,
> # mail -u root
And once you've waded through the backlog, you should set up
the aliases suggested in /etc/aliases, so that you get these
messages yourself.
root: andrew # well, that's my login name
manager: andrew
dumper: andrew
operator: andrew
webmaster: andrew
--
Andrew
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting
than the question of whether a submarine can swim" - Edsgar W. Dijkstra