The fact that the "folder" /var/mail/root doesn't exist is probably
because root hasn't gotten any mail. If you booted into single user I
think that's normal. I quoted "folder" because it's pine speak, in Un*x
speak a pine folder is simply a file. I bring it up 'cause it got me
confused at one point (I thought a folder was a dir). I have:

spock>ls -lF /var/mail
total 0
-rw-------  1 guest   vanilla  0 Feb 10 19:40 guest
-rw-------  1 johanc  wheel    0 Feb  9 00:34 johanc
-rw-------  1 root    wheel    0 Feb 16 22:50 root

The Way Of The Forefathers is to forward root's mail to the admin by
editing /etc/aliases; just add a line like:

# Well-known aliases -- these should be filled in!
root:   johanc

If you're using pine3.91 make sure it's the patched version that can read
~/.pinerc or get the 3.95 binaries from:
	ftp://fusion.kth.se/pub/johanc/outgoing/

Hope this helps,

/Johan

On Fri, 21 Feb 1997, Tyler wrote:

> hi,
> 
> 	Ok, i've tried to set up PINE, but when i enter it it says
> 
> 	/var/mail/root no such folder..   I was wondering Y? i've even
> created one there for it and it still spits that back.