On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 03:15:54PM -0600, Eric Smith wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Till Maas <opensource@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Bash usually tells you when there is mail in the spool, which is IMHO a > > big difference to /dev/null. > > Funny, I just ssh'd into my machine, and it didn't tell me anything > about mail being in the spool, but when I do an ls on the spool > directory, there it is. > > Maybe it has something to do with that users don't often log in as root. Oh, sorry, I was imprecise. Bash actually tells you when new mail is put into the spool. E.g. if you log in as root, touch /var/spool/root and wait up to 60 seconds and run e.g. ls, bash should tell you that there is new mail before the next prompt. Regards Till -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
