root e-mail

[Cathy Arora]

Hi all;
I would to check root-mail account.
Please help, how to check it becuse there is a hardware issue with unix box (11i) and I am hopeing I may have some mail in root account, which I can forward to HP.
Also how can I set the terminal id.
Thanks and appreciate help.

[melvyn burnard]

login as root
type:
elm
respond y to both qustions (if asked) for directory etc, then read any mail that may be there.
To set the terminal type
you could do:
eval `ttytype -s`
tset

and htis hopefully should interrogate your terminal and set it for you.

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

# export TERM=vt100
run the mail or elm command.

Robert-Jan

[Cathy Arora]

Thanks,
How do i know what terminal id should it be?
can you set up termid for console also.
and how would i know that perticular id?

Thanks again.

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

If you are using console then I guess you are using HP terminal. Run export TERM=hp.

In future use .forward file in roots home directory. put your email id in the .forward file., All the root mails then will redirect to your e-mail account.

-USA..

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi Cathy,

I'm not shure what mean with termid ?

If you look at root's profile there should be a part looking like below

-----

# Set up the terminal:
if [ "$TERM" = "" ]
then
eval ` tset -s -Q -m ':?hp' `
else
eval ` tset -s -Q `
fi
case `tty` in
*console*) TERM=hp ;;
*) TERM=vt100 ;;
esac
stty erase "^H" kill "^U" intr "^C" eof "^D"
stty hupcl ixon ixoff
tabs

echo
echo " Value of TERM has been set to \"$TERM\". "
export TERM

-------

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Steven E. Protter]

It is a pretty common practice to forward root email to another user.

in /etc/mail/aliases

root: someone@yournetwork

You will need to locate and run gen_cf to generate a new sendmail.cf, move it to production and ...

/sbin/init.d/sendmail start
/sbin/init.d/sendmail stop

SEP

[Wouter Jagers]

Terminal type:
# export TERM=hp
--> will work on the console

# export TERM=vt100
--> will work on pretty much anything.

Mail:
You can use the 'mail' command.. However, it's better to edit your /etc/mail/aliases file and add the following line:

root:youraddress@yourdomain

.. and Then run the command 'newaliases'.

This will send all mails for root to your email address.

regards
Wout