want to see root's saved mail

shipon_97 · 08-25-2007, 12:06 PM

Dear Friends,

I m using RHEL 4.0 . In Linux using "mail" command I have to see the system related file via mail . And when I have to quit then it saves the mail .

My question , where the mail is saved and in future time If I want to see these previous mail then which command I need to execute ?
Plz help ...

hacker supreme · 08-25-2007, 01:15 PM

If I remember correctly, it either gets saved in /var/mail/ as an ASCII file which you can open with your favourite editor.
The root mail would be /var/mail/root
(Your Mileage May Vary)

colucix · 08-25-2007, 04:47 PM

Actually, the saved mail are collected in a text file called $HOME/mbox. They can be viewed by

Code:

mail -f $HOME/mbox

/var/mail on Red Hat is a link to /var/spool/mail which is the real post office, that is the repository of the mail currently in your (not archived) mailbox. If you want to exit from mail without saving, you can type x instead of q.