reading root's mail

[Glenn Holmer]

On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 12:06 +0100, Jamie Griffin wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 05:13:36AM -0500, Glenn Holmer wrote:
> > I installed mutt with its exim dependency and the administrative user
> > (cenbe) is listed in /etc/aliases, but when I open mutt, I get
> > "/var/mail/cenbe: No such file or directory".  Same thing if I run mutt
> > as root.  In /var/mail, there's just one file, "mail".
> > 
> > Why can't I read root's mail?
> > 
> 
> If mail for the root account is being processed and delivered by your
> MTA to /var/mail/$USER the file (if you're using mbox) will most
> likely be created when you've received the first email for that
> account. 

Nope.  If it do "mutt -f /var/mail/mail", I can see recent mails to
root.  There are no other files in that directory.

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"After the vintage season came the aftermath - and Cenbe."
Glenn Holmer  (Q-Link: ShadowM)  http://www.lyonlabs.org