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Terminal annoyance
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It's root mail. System messages to the root user, and for the life of me, I can't remember the BSD commands to recover (too stuck in HP-UX, the bastard stepchild of BSD). Try "msg" or man msg, mail, or similar terms.
Since it appears to be at your user, rather than root, just try "mail" (without the quotes).
Since it appears to be at your user, rather than root, just try "mail" (without the quotes).
ok,
for future reference...
in terminal
>mail
>delete -a
that got rid of the message, but im not really sure what exactly was deleted,
the messages seemed to be stored in /var/mail/[username]/
however var is hidden in the finder
but I also could not get there via the terminal, I could get to /var/mail/
then I did an ls there and it returned "randy" (my username) so I did a cd randy and it said there was no directory with that name, so at that point I just gave up and did the "delete -a" haha
Thanks for your help!
for future reference...
in terminal
>delete -a
that got rid of the message, but im not really sure what exactly was deleted,
the messages seemed to be stored in /var/mail/[username]/
however var is hidden in the finder
but I also could not get there via the terminal, I could get to /var/mail/
then I did an ls there and it returned "randy" (my username) so I did a cd randy and it said there was no directory with that name, so at that point I just gave up and did the "delete -a" haha
Thanks for your help!
Next time, try
>r 1
That will display the first message. you can then do a "delete -a" if you wish.