From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 16 01:35:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA12889 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 01:35:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ceia.nordier.com (m2-43-dbn.dial-up.net [196.34.155.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA12880 for ; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 01:35:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id LAA00413; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 11:34:34 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199811160934.LAA00413@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: mail -u In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19981116025037.03461374@bugs.us.dell.com> from Tony Overfield at "Nov 16, 98 02:50:37 am" To: tony@dell.com (Tony Overfield) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 11:34:30 +0200 (SAT) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tony Overfield wrote: > > Is there some trick for getting "mail -u" to work with -current? > > Logged in as "root" and running "mail -u tony" gets this > (paraphrased and shortened): > > [...] > mail NAMI "/var/mail/root" > mail RET open -1 errno 2 No such file or directory > mail CALL write(0x2, "No mail for tony\n", 0x11) > [...] > > "mail -f /var/mail/tony" works correctly on -current and > "mail -u tony" works on my -stable system. > > I apologize if I'm sending to the wrong list. Please advise. It's a reported bug PR 8665. A workaround is to unsetenv MAIL. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message