where environment variable MAIL was set?

Zheng Tianyu zhengtianyu1983 at yahoo.com.cn
Fri Mar 30 10:29:34 UTC 2007


Problem solved.

Thank you.


Zheng Tianyu

On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 10:59:36AM +0100, Vince wrote:
> Zheng Tianyu wrote:
> > Hi, All
> > 
> > My account name is airfish, after I sued to root, I found that the 
> > environment variable MAIL remained MAIL=/var/mail/airfish. As a result,
> > when I start mutt, it opens the airfish's mailbox. That's not what i
> > desired. But I can't find where the MAIL is set. Should I unsetenv MAIL
> > in my root's login file?
> 
> >From the manpage:
>  By default, the environment is unmodified with the exception of USER,
>      HOME, and SHELL.
> 
> and
> 
> 
> -l      Simulate a full login.  The environment is discarded except for
>              HOME, SHELL, PATH, TERM, and USER.  HOME and SHELL are
> 	     modified as above.
> 
> Vince
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