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From: "Jeffrey M. Metcalf" <metcalfj@synapse.XXbms.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: root's mail???
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 11:25:01 -0400
Organization: Bristol-Myers Squibb
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References: <5ok7j5$dc5@quail.swcp.com> <5omevk$83j$1@bofh.noc.best.net> <5ook2t$sak@flatland.dimensional.com>
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Michael Fuhr wrote:
>
> rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri) writes:
>
> > 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?
> >
I believe that your problem is that su is aliased to su -m so that
you are inhereting some of your original login shell environment
(such as your system mailbox and not root's). Optionally, you can
try unaliasing su under csh, or after having become root via su,
just type 'mail -u root' if you're using mailx. Check the man pages
for how to do this under other e-mail software such as pine or elm.
That's all there is to it.
Good Luck,
JM
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