On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:07:41PM -0800, ME wrote: > 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 > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
A few usual suspects: ~/.maildir /var/mail /var/spool/mail If you want to use the mail command, you will need to emerge mailx For other clients, check /usr/portage/mail-client/ I personally use mutt for my user accounts, and just less for root. What MTA/MDA did you install? qmail? Postfix? Check their settings in /etc, they usually offer a clue to where the mail is being delivered. W -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- * Address: 45 Spelman Hall, Princeton University 08544 * * Phone: x68958 AIM: AngularJerk * * E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: sep.dynalias.net * ---------------------------------------------------------------- I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night. -- Calvin Sortir en Pantoufles: up 6 days, 21:20 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
