Owner and permissions of /var/mail/me

Carthik Sharma carthik at gmail.com
Thu Sep 1 14:04:13 UTC 2005


On 9/1/05, Michael R Head <burner at suppressingfire.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 23:26 +1000, Russell Cook wrote:
> > What is the default mail package for dealing with internal system
> > messages?
> > When I check for mail I get the following:
> 
> burner at phoenix:~$ dpkg -S `which mail`
> mailx: /usr/bin/mail


I guess this "mail" is the program used to read the mail in 
/var/mail/username - i was talking about the agent used to send mail outside 
my box.

Also, answers as to how to recreate /var/mail/carthik would be welcome :)

Carthik.
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