I got it fixed. It was this god damn biff thing. It still is saying "you have new mail in /var/spool/mail/alex_snow but that's not bad. Biff was dispalying the whole message. -- A message from the system administrator: "I've upped my priority, now up yours!" On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Igor Gueths wrote: > Does Fetchmail not act silent even though you have it running as a cron > job? One thing to try would be adding > /dev/NULL 2>&1 to make sure it is > silent. This does have the side effect of not warning about connection > problems. However, if you leave the configuration as is for the forseeable > future, you shouldn't have any problems. > > May you code in the power of the source, > may the kernel, libraries, and utilities be with you, > throughout all distributions until the end of the epoch. > > On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Alex Snow wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I finally got my mail working. One more question... How do I stop > > fetchmail from telling me about mail? I mean how do I completely silence > > it? I tried adding the --silent option when I started it but it didn't > > work. Is there something I can add to my .fetchmailrc? > > > > -- > > A message from the system administrator: "I've upped my priority, now up yours! > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
