Re: Mail for root being delivered to user mail

2003-10-12 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
Hi Lee, maybe an alias for root has been set. Look in /etc/aliases , on my system it looks like this: # This is the aliases file - it says who gets mail for whom. # It was originally generated by `eximconfig', part of the exim package # distributed with Debian, but it may edited by the mail sys

Re: Mail for root being delivered to user mail

2003-10-11 Thread Lee Elliott
On Sunday 12 October 2003 00:54, you wrote: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 10:48:42PM +0100, Lee Elliott wrote: > > Since doing an 'unstable' update a couple of days ago mail for root is > > being delivered to user 'mail' i.e. /var/mail/mail instead of /var/ mail/ > > root. I've intentionally set root

Mail for root being delivered to user mail

2003-10-11 Thread Lee Elliott
Since doing an 'unstable' update a couple of days ago mail for root is being delivered to user 'mail' i.e. /var/mail/mail instead of /var/mail/ root. I've intentionally set root's mail to be delivered to root and this hasn't been changed in /etc/aliases - infact there is an alias entry for user