Root mail

[Andrew Konosky]

When running in text mode, I have noticed before that when I log in as 
root, I see the notification that I have new mail. I figured it was 
system mail, and read through some of it, but I am curious as to what 
generates it and why? I know one time I forgot to su before running a 
command and my computer told me it was going to "report" me, which I 
thought was pretty funny. What is cron? I see cron.daily and cron.weekly 
reports also.

I can read the e-mail though the console, but can I configure it like a 
regular mailbox in Kmail or Mozilla when running in graphical mode?

[Andrew Walsh]

One easy way to receive root's mail is to create a file called
".forward" in the /root directory - in the file, add your username or
any other email address to automatically forward root's mail to.  When
root receives mail, it will also appear in your inbox - This way, you
can simply ignore the actual root's mail altogether.

The other option is just to run Kmail (must be run as root) and add a
local mailbox, using all the defaults (click next, next, next etc).

Andrew.

On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 13:11, Andrew Konosky wrote:

>  When running in text mode, I have noticed before that when I log in
> as 
>  root, I see the notification that I have new mail. I figured it was 
>  system mail, and read through some of it, but I am curious as to what 
>  generates it and why? I know one time I forgot to su before running a 
>  command and my computer told me it was going to "report" me, which I 
>  thought was pretty funny. What is cron? I see cron.daily and cron.weekly 
>  reports also.
>  
>  I can read the e-mail though the console, but can I configure it like a 
>  regular mailbox in Kmail or Mozilla when running in graphical mode?
>

sound

[Thornton]

its dead.  I tried to detect sound card and it located it, clicked 
test sound and nothing plays.  It used to work fine.  I havnt 
installed anything new or anything like that.  Just the up2date 
updates.  Could any of them effected my sound.  I am using a 
asus mb w/ a nvidia sound card.

Any suggestions would be great.

Thank you

sound

[netmask]

Please post your message new, instead of tacking it on to another thread. This 
will allow people to more easily find your message and respond to it.

>  Thornton (thornton(a)cierragroup.com) composed today: 
>  its dead.  I tried to detect sound card and it located it, clicked
>  test sound and nothing plays.  It used to work fine.  I havnt
>  installed anything new or anything like that.  Just the up2date
>  updates.  Could any of them effected my sound.  I am using a
>  asus mb w/ a nvidia sound card.
>
>  Any suggestions would be great.
>
>  Thank you
>
>
>  

-- 
netmask

sound

[Thornton]

i didnt but i just noticed for some reason the first part of my message
didnt come through

i will resend it

On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 22:49, netmask wrote:
>  Please post your message new, instead of tacking it on to another
> thread. This 
>  will allow people to more easily find your message and respond to it.
>  
>  > Thornton (thornton(a)cierragroup.com) composed today:
>  
>  >
>  > its dead.  I tried to detect sound card and it located it, clicked
>  > test sound and nothing plays.  It used to work fine.  I havnt
>  > installed anything new or anything like that.  Just the up2date
>  > updates.  Could any of them effected my sound.  I am using a
>  > asus mb w/ a nvidia sound card.
>  >
>  > Any suggestions would be great.
>  >
>  > Thank you
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  
>  
>  -- 
>  netmask 
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[Ernie McCracken]

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 10:11:58PM -0500, Andrew Konosky wrote:
>  What is cron? I see cron.daily and cron.weekly 
>  reports also. 
Take a look at this intro to cron:

http://www.unixgeeks.org/security/newbie/unix/cron-1.html

[Michael]

>  When running in text mode, I have noticed before that when I log in
> as
>  root, I see the notification that I have new mail. I figured it was
>  system mail, and read through some of it, but I am curious as to what
>  generates it and why? I know one time I forgot to su before running a
>  command and my computer told me it was going to "report" me, which I
>  thought was pretty funny. What is cron? I see cron.daily and cron.weekly
>  reports also.
>
>  I can read the e-mail though the console, but can I configure it like a
>  regular mailbox in Kmail or Mozilla when running in graphical mode? 
You should set an alias for root to an actual human account on the system.

/etc/aliases

root: yourusername

then just rebuild the aliases.db database.

-Mike