Re: this confused me a little

[Scott Wood <treii28@xxxxxxxxx>]

Some of the shells have built in capability to check mail.  They are usually
going to look at the /var/spool/mail/root (/usr/spool/mail/root on some systems
although in most distributions I have seen, the /usr/spool is a symbolic link).
 Whether or not your 'favorite' mail program is set to read this folder as root
is going to be dependant upon the program and how it was configured.  (i.e. by
you or as part of the defaults in the distribution)

Scott

--- Zachary Florian <icthusianz@ameritech.net> 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?
> 
> 
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