Reading Root Mail

dvong3 · 07-17-2003, 02:03 AM

Today, I was trying to read my root mail. It was working fine yesterday. Here is the error message I got. Does any body know how to fix it?

[root@mrtg2 /var]# mail
/tmp/RxaaM7mY: Read-only file system
[root@mrtg2 /var]#

JZL240I-U · 07-17-2003, 05:08 AM

Post/change the permission of /tmp/RxaaM7mY

dvong3 · 07-17-2003, 05:48 AM

Not sure what you mean.....what permission do I change

JZL240I-U · 07-17-2003, 05:52 AM

In a terminal type
ls -l /tmp/RxaaM7mY (this is small "L"s -(small "L")

Then post the output here.

dvong3 · 07-17-2003, 06:35 AM

Here is the output.

[root@mrtg2 /tmp]# mail
/tmp/RxtMeytK: Read-only file system
[root@mrtg2 /tmp]# ls -l /tmp/RxTgFERE
ls: /tmp/RxTgFERE: No such file or directory
[root@mrtg2 /tmp]#

JZL240I-U · 07-17-2003, 06:42 AM

And that's no wonder, since you queried the wrong file:

ls -l /tmp/RxTgFERE can't show the permissions of
/tmp/RxtMeytK.

Please use the appropriate file name.

dvong3 · 07-17-2003, 07:01 AM

OK. YOu mean ls -l /tmp/RxtMeytK. Here is the output

[root@mrtg2 /tmp]# ls -al /tmp/RxTgFERE
ls: /tmp/RxTgFERE: No such file or directory
You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root
[root@mrtg2 /tmp]# ls -al /tmp/RxtMeytK
ls: /tmp/RxtMeytK: No such file or directory
[root@mrtg2 /tmp]# cd /tmp
[root@mrtg2 /tmp]# ls
[root@mrtg2 /tmp]# ls -al
total 28
drwxrwxrwt 7 root root 4096 Jul 16 06:41 .
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Jul 16 06:40 ..
drwxrwxrwt 2 xfs xfs 4096 Jul 16 06:41 .font-unix
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Aug 27 2002 .ICE-unix
drwx------ 2 danny danny 4096 Aug 27 2002 .sawfish-danny
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Aug 24 2002 .sawfish-root
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Jun 27 01:01 .X11-unix

JZL240I-U · 07-17-2003, 07:07 AM

You cut off 21 lines ... so I can't see what I was looking for.
Okay. Try
less /var/spool/mail/root

dvong3 · 07-17-2003, 07:11 AM

There's no other line...here is the root permission

[root@mrtg2 /tmp]# cd /var/spool/mail
[root@mrtg2 mail]# ls
root
[root@mrtg2 mail]# ls -al
total 2400
drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 4096 Jul 17 05:10 .
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Jan 7 2003 ..
-rw------- 1 root root 2445234 Jul 17 05:10 root

JZL240I-U · 07-17-2003, 07:14 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by dvong3
There's no other line

Sorry, my mistake.

Please just type in at the command prompt:
less /var/spool/mail/root

dvong3 · 07-17-2003, 07:17 AM

Yes, i see my mail.

[root@mrtg2 mail]# less /var/spool/mail/root
From root Tue Jul 15 23:32:48 2003
Return-Path: <root@mrtg2.intell.com>
Received: (from root@localhost)
by mrtg2.intell.com(8.11.6/8.11.6) id h6G6UN8504
for root; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 23:30:23 -0700
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 23:30:23 -0700
Message-Id: <200307630.h6G02504@mrtg2.intell.com>
From: root@mrtg2.intell.com(Cron Daemon)
To: root@mrtg2.intell.com
Subject: Cron <root@mrtg2> /etc/mrtg/all-ip
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
Status: O