> > >> > > >> > Hi! > >> > > >> > When loging in, my users sometimes get the message 'You have > >> > mail', when in fact they have new mail. > >> > > >> > Also, in redhat whenever they received new mail and they where in > >> > the bash shell, they'd get the 'You have new mail' after any command. In > >> > debian they don't. > >> > > >> > >> I think in /etc/profile, you have to include > >> > >> export MAILPATH=/usr/spool/mail/$USER > > You meant /var/spool..... IIRC /usr/spool was > abandoned some time a go.
I guess you're right. On my bo system /usr/spool is a link to /var/spool. On an Irix and a Solaris system here the mail goes into /usr/mail. I guess that's why I looked in /usr first. Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax +31 40 2455054 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
