I believe the application you're looking for is mailx, "The /bin/mail program".
It is in portage. I think messages are stores in /var/mail, don't take my word for it though. On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 12:11:56 -0800, darren kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > -- ------------------------ Steven Susbauer -- [email protected] mailing list
