On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Till Maas <opensource(a)till.name> wrote:
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.
Sure. And how often does a typical user log in as root to discover that email?
Even on systems I administer myself, I don't log in as root, or su,
all that often.
Eric