Bug 17816 - strange behaviour of /bin/mail
Summary: strange behaviour of /bin/mail
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 17461
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: mailx
Version: 6.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Florian La Roche
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-09-25 05:42 UTC by Joachim Backes
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-09-25 05:42:08 UTC
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Description Joachim Backes 2000-09-25 05:42:06 UTC
Calling /bin/mail by

		mail -u <some user>

as root says: No mail for <some user>, but
 
		mail -f /var/spool/mail/<some user>

lists the emails for <some user> correctly.

The man page of mail says that the two command calls are
equivalent.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2000-11-02 13:48:15 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 17461 ***


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