Re: this confused me a little

[Dirk Bartley <bartleyd2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Zachary Florian wrote:
> 
> so here i am working on getting my X sessions default resolution to where i
> want... i get X shutdown (i had to restart, i don't know any other good
> ways) and login as root... it tells me that i have mail after my 'last
> login' line... this seems odd to me because of course i have yet to get this
> online... i understand it's probably just the computer telling me that i
> screwed up somewhere in my user account... so how do i read this mail?


Many daemons send mail to root.  The easiest way is to enter the command
mail at a bash prompt when logged in as root.  It will show you what mail
root has and allow you to read the messages.  I am by no means a "mail"
program expert, I jus' use it occasionally.  "Mail" is the local mail
delivery agent sendmail is the mail transport agent.  You may want to
explore /var/log and view files in there and it's subdirectories.  Lots of
good stuff there.

Dirk