On Sunday 26 September 2010 11:21:50 pm you wrote:
From free...@insightbb.com Sun Sep 26 18:14:09 2010
From: Steven Friedrich free...@insightbb.com
To: Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com
Subject: Re: sudo anomaly
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 19:16:00 -0400
On Sunday 26 September 2010 2:38:06 pm you wrote:
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sun Sep 26 11:46:43 2010
From: Steven Friedrich free...@insightbb.com
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 12:47:29 -0400
Subject: sudo anomaly
I have a userID, admin, that I add to my systems to use when I
perform system admin functions. I also use this ID when using
X-windows, never starting X as root user.
So I needed to check my mail for daily run outputs and so I tried to
use su then mail, but I got admin's mail. So I exited su, and tried
sudo mail. I got root's mailbox nd I deleted all but two emails.
When I q(uit) mail, it said it saved 2 messages in mbox. But when I
try to go back in it says I don't have any mail. There is no root
directory in /var/mail.
All that is correct.
Did sudo lose my mbox?
Nope. _you_ did.
The good news is that you merely misplaced it -- it _is_ were it's
always been, you're just looking in the wrong place for it.`
'mbox' != 'incoming mailbox'
Can anyone verify this anomaly?
no anomaly. simple *USER* error.
Look in root's _HOME_DIRECTORY_. You'll find a file called 'mbox'
=there=.
That's where 'already read' mail is saved.
When logged in as root, use 'mail -f mbox' to see your old mail.
BTW, if you 'su root' and _then_ set evnrionment variable 'USER' to
'root', mail(1) _will_ fetch root's mail.
Thanks. I used mail under unix eons ago, and I don't remember ever having
to use a switch to get saved mail, but perhaps I've simply forgotten. I
use KMail and Thunderbird (under Winblows), but I needed to check daily
output scripts...
did you use 'su root' or 'su - root'? the '-' makes a humongous
difference.
Thanks, I had forgotten about that...
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