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(a)till.name> 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