From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 3 15:44:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 117C314C3D for ; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 15:44:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.0.3] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.032 #1) id 11N0Ba-0000Cf-00; Fri, 03 Sep 1999 21:43:50 +0100 Received: (from ben) by lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.032 #1) id 11N0BZ-0000ei-00; Fri, 03 Sep 1999 21:43:49 +0100 Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 21:43:49 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Joe Bo Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: su root mail [was RE: password wrong] Message-ID: <19990903214349.B2032@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <2.2.32.19990903171605.00926d84@netmail.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19990903171605.00926d84@netmail.home.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joe Bo wrote: > So I log in as Joe, su root, mail > and get the message "no mail for joe". > I only get root mail when login as root. > what am i doing wrong? thanks... Put an alias for root in /etc/aliases, redirecting mail to your "joe" account (and other users who need to read root's mail). -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message