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From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens vitalstream com]
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 10:55 PM
To: redhat-install-list redhat com
Subject: Re: System logs ?


Dan Gordon wrote:

> Yesterday when i came home from work I found that x had crashed, at least
I 
> think thats what happend. Before i rebooted i was able to login as root
from 
> the command line (not x) and it told me i had new mail. As ive never set
up 
> any email accounts in root im thinking the system was trying to tell me 
> somthing. How do i go about reading this mail? or system logs to see what 
> went wrong?


Log in as root, then run "mail" or "pine".  If you are a user on
unix, you have an email account.  You may not be able to reach it
from outside your system, but everyone on the same system can send
mail to each other.  It's built into Linux.

Check your /var/log/messages file to see why X died.
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