On Tue, 18 May 2010 22:45:27 +0200, Hect wrote: >I can't get to disable email notification with bash. >You know the message that says "You have new mail in /var/mail/user". >I tried, as bash manual says, to add variable MAILPATH to profile but doesn't >do the job. There's no biff in ps command output, anyway i tried also with >"biff n"..... no way.
Are you sure you are using bash? Anyway if bash can use MAILPATH (which wouldn't do what you want anyway) then it may also set MAIL=somepath and you can delete (or comment it so it doesn't work) and logout and login again and look at your env R/ *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT CC me. I <am> subscribed to the list. Mail to the sender address that does not originate at the list server is tarpitted. The reply-to: address is provided for those who feel compelled to reply off list. Thankyou. Rod/ --- This life is not the real thing. It is not even in Beta. If it was, then OpenBSD would already have a man page for it.
