grep To:\ username /var/spool/username | wc The first number this 'wc' returns is the number of lines
man 'wc' to check if their a way to suppress the no of words, no of characters from the output of wc User mail -u username to check the no of messages in /var/spool/username Wez PS. Maybe learn perl, if the above doesn't work. It was designed for extracting and reporting information (Practical Extraction and Report Language) On Saturday 06 Jul 2002 5:19 pm, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > Now that the system is up and running, I'm moving on to the next > "problem" block. I'm using sendmail as my MTA, and I have quotas enabled > on the /home drive. However, how do I also count the users' spool files in > /var/spool/mail/<user> (where sendmail dumps incoming messages)? I want > each user's quota to reflect both their account and their spool file. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
