Yes I tried it. I don't know whether it should show some additional messages but in my case when I execute this command it is like this:
bhatt@ikp398:~/PANDA/pandaroot/macro/run> root -l
root [0] gROOT->LoadMacro("$VMCWORKDIR/gconfig/rootlogon.C");
root [1] rootlogon();
root [2]