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su -
With the dash, su will read the profile of the user, in this case root.


Corey

> I log in as "johndoe", su to "root" and enter the basic "mail" command and
> get this message: "No mail for johndoe".
> 
> Command "id -p" gives (first two lines):
> login   johndoe
> uid     root
> 
> Anyone know how I should fix this?
> 
> P.S.  For now, I'm using "mail -f /var/mail/root".
> 
> Thanks.
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