Package: bash
Version: 3.1-1
Severity: normal
Setting MAILCHECK=no in the past used to disable mailchecking.
Nothing has changed in the manpage -- it still says:
MAILCHECK
Specifies how often (in seconds) bash checks for mail.
The default is 60 seconds. When it is time to
check for mail, the shell does so before displaying the
primary prompt. If this variable is unset, or set
to a value that is not a number greater than or equal to
zero, the shell disables mail checking.
However, setting MAILCHECK=no now automatically gets changed to:
> echo $MAILCHECK
0
Which does the exact opposite of what I want.
Now I have to say `unset MAILCHECK`. If this is a permanent change,
the manpage wants to be updated too.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
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APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12.3
Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages bash depends on:
ii base-files 3.1.9 Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii debianutils 2.15.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.3.5-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.5-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
bash recommends no packages.
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