Terminal annoyance

[Me1000]

Why is it that ever time I open up the terminal it says "you have mail" at the top?

How do I get rid of it?

 

[squeeks]

read all of your new mail

 

[Me1000]

I have...
lol

 

[squeeks]

hmm, i tried googleing it but i couldnt find anything on this, and mine dosent do it, maybe its an app you have installed

 

[JNB]

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).

 

[Me1000]

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!

 

[TH-Gunner]

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).

Exactly what I was thinking... I don't know the command either, though lol

 

[scaredpoet]

that got rid of the message, but im not really sure what exactly was deleted,

Next time, try

>mail
>r 1

That will display the first message. you can then do a "delete -a" if you wish.