Can't read root's mail

[MAD_2]

I keep getting the following message when I try to read root's mail:

Check mode and group id of mail file.
Mode should be "660" with group id "mail".

I already checked mode and group ids in /var/mail and they match this criteria. Also, it's not only root's mail I can't read, it's any account's mail. Any ideas? It was working ealier today but not sure what happened between this morning and now.

Thanks,

[Michael Tully]

Hi,

'root's mail should have the permissions
as below:

-rw-rw---- 1 root mail 1659724 Jun 4 09:33 /var/mail/root

Also check the directory permissions as so:

drwxrwxr-x 2 bin mail 1024 Jun 4 09:33 /var/mail

Cheers
~Michael~

[Bill Hassell]

What is the permission and ownership of /var/mail? It should be: 775, owned by bin:mail. Here is /var and /var/mail:

ll -d /var /var/mail
dr-xr-xr-x 18 bin bin 2048 Oct 22 2001 /var/
drwxrwxr-x 2 bin mail 96 Jun 3 19:04 /var/mail/

[MAD_2]

Thanks for your answers. The problem was actually not permissions but the environment I was using, I was using an environment that was created for administrators but root's profile was not included! My mistake, I did not realize it until the next day.