From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 26 16:47:31 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE1D7106564A for ; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:47:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from FreeBSD@insightbb.com) Received: from mxsf11.insightbb.com (mxsf11.insightbb.com [74.128.0.93]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC8C58FC13 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:47:31 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.57,239,1283745600"; d="scan'208";a="211896518" Received: from unknown (HELO asav02.insightbb.com) ([172.31.249.123]) by mxsf11.insightbb.com with ESMTP; 26 Sep 2010 12:47:30 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AldCAOIVn0xKgCiCPGdsb2JhbACHbYxHjgAMAQEBATUtw1iDDAqCLgQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.57,239,1283745600"; d="scan'208";a="387892599" Received: from 74-128-40-130.dhcp.insightbb.com (HELO laptop2.stevenfriedrich.org) ([74.128.40.130]) by asavout02.manage.insightbb.com with ESMTP; 26 Sep 2010 12:47:30 -0400 From: Steven Friedrich To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 12:47:29 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.1-RELEASE; KDE/4.5.1; i386; ; ) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201009261247.30582.FreeBSD@insightbb.com> Subject: sudo anomaly X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:47:31 -0000 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. Did sudo lose my mbox? Can anyone verify this anomaly? -- System Name: laptop2.StevenFriedrich.org Hardware: 2.80GHz Intel Pentium 4 (HTT) with 2 GB memory OS version: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE i386 (6.9 MB kernel) manager(s): kde4-4.5.1 X windows: xorg-7.5 X.Org X Server 1.7.5