quoth the ME: > Hi, > > I feel a bit dumb here. > > On my Redhat systems, when I open a root shell and have the message "You > have new mail in /root", I just type "mail" and there I am reading the > messages on the command line. > > With Gentoo, I get the "You have new mail..." message, but I don't have > the proper application to read it (and do not know what to emerge). > > Moreover, I am not able to find the messages! I looked under /root, > under /var and did not find any (I might just be missing them, but I > suspect they are not getting where they should). > > Can anyone let me know what to install / setup to get this going? > BTW, I have installed metalog for system logger, if that matters. > > Thanks. > > Marc
Well, to put in my 2cents, what I do is edit the /etc/mail/aliases file so that root's mail resolves to my normal user account and read it there... Why screw around with two different clients just to read your cron report? -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972
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