It was biff that was doing it. I changed the line in /etc/profile to biff n and it fixed the problem -- A message from the system administrator: "I've upped my priority, now up yours!" On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Jude DaShiell wrote: > No, fetchmail isn't telling you about mail. There's three possibilities > that might be doing it though. If you're using slackware out of the box > that narrows to one though. In slackware you can put biff n in > .bash_login and that'll silence the beeping and new mail messages. > There's also newmail that may have to be silenced or wnewmail if they're > being used. Check /etc/profile and look for new mail and you should find > what's telling you about new mail under that line. > > -- > Jude <dashielljt(at)gmpexpress-dot-net> > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
