Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 01:34:46 -0500 (CDT) From: mcbrune <mcbrune@home.com> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail command tries to read wrong user's mail Message-ID: <200109230634.f8N6YkJ01639@home.com> In-Reply-To: <znadznyt1z.dzn@localhost.localdomain>
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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. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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