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From: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV (Bruce A. Mah)
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If memory serves me right, "Peter Brezny" wrote:
> is there a way to get free bsd to display the mail q information similar to
> a linux box?
> 
> when i type watch mailq on my freebsd 2.2.8 machine, it says.
> 
> 
> watch: fatal: cannot open snoop device

Try just "mailq".  I don't know what watch does on a Linux box, but on FreeBSD 
it is used to "snoop on another tty line" (according to the man page).  It 
sounds like that's not quite what you wanted...

Bruce.




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