From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 22 11:34:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6464337B41F for ; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 11:34:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 230A8BC95 for ; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 11:34:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA27914 for ; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 11:34:12 -0700 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f8MIXCD52344; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 11:33:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: mail command tries to read wrong user's mail From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 22 Sep 2001 11:33:12 -0700 Message-ID: Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I log in as "johndoe", su to "root" and enter the basic "mail" command and get this message: "No mail for johndoe". Command "id -p" gives (first two lines): login johndoe uid root Anyone know how I should fix this? P.S. For now, I'm using "mail -f /var/mail/root". Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message