Root Mail was Fwd: Re: Postfix, Mutt And No Root Mail?

[ed]

Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> --- ed <miller07 at suddenlink.net> wrote:
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>> Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
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>>> --- ed <miller07 at suddenlink.net> wrote:
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>>>> Hal Burgiss wrote:
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>>>>> On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 05:52:49PM -0700,
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>> Leonard
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>>>> Chatagnier wrote:
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>>>>>   <snip>
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>>>>>> FWIW, this has all been resolved except I still
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>>>> don't
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>>>>>> get root mail.  Someone said that Ubuntu
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>> doesn't
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>>>>>> support root mail.  I could still use a good
>>>>>> explanation on why no root mail. 
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>>>>> Leonard, I don't buy 'Ubuntu not supporting root
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>>>> mail'. I mean root is
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>>>>> an account, and should be able to get mail. I
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>> get
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>>>> root mail on 7.04
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>>>>> though don't recall what I might have done (or
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>> not
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>>>> done) to make it
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>>>>> happen:
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>>>>> y:Exit  c:Chdir  m:Mask  ?:Help
>>>>>  1     drwxr-xr-x 49 halb     halb         4096
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>>>> Oct 25 22:11 ../
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>>>>>  2     -rw-------  1 halb     halb      1061193
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>>>> Oct 25 07:37 root
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>>>>>  3     -rw-------  1 halb     halb         1307
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>>>> Sep 08 13:30 junk
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>>>>> That's a mailbox that get roots mail via a
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>> postfix
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>>>> alias, then
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>>>>> through procmail filtering.
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>>>> I just use the command: sudo root mail.
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>>> Strange, all I ever did was run mutt from a CLI
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>> and
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>>> root mail was there.  Never have used the above
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>> (sudo
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>>> root mail).  Here's what I get:
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>>> lchata at ubuntu:/etc$ sudo root mail
>>> Password:
>>> sudo: root: command not found
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>>>
>>> Leonard Chatagnier
>>> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
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>> sorry, that was sudo -i enter password then command
>> root mail. If you 
>> still get command not found then you might need to
>> apt-get mail and see 
>> whats available for installation.
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> Sorry Ed, didn't work for me.  I get:
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> lchata at ubuntu:/etc$ sudo -i
> Password:
> root at ubuntu:~# root mail
> -bash: root: command not found
> root at ubuntu:~# command root mail
> -bash: root: command not found
> root at ubuntu:~# 
>
> Also did an apt-cache search mail with lots of output
> but nothing relating to "root mail"
> Usually when someone gives me a two word command to
> try it's no a correct syntax.  Perhaps you assumed I'd
> know something that I don't.
>
> Len
>
> Leonard Chatagnier
> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
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try just mail instead of root mail

ed