Kaushik>Thanks for putting me right on , but I still feel a beep from
Kaushik> the PC speaker{echo -e "\a" } , will lead me into
Kaushik> into believing that I'am committing a mistake on
Kaushik>the task I'am presently doing.
Kaushik> An easy way around it, simply play more authentic
Kaushik>music, or place a clock & mailcheck applet on your bar.
Kaushik>Hav'nt got around trying gkrellm though.Maybe at the
Kaushik>next opportunity
Bye
Kaushik Sen
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Date: Friday, May 26, 2000 2:46 PM
From: Raju Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIH] Fetchmail
> >> >>> Can I have my fetchmail running in the bkground >>> while being
connected , inform me by playing a sound that >>>I've
> some mail ?
sreangsu> hello i have a script which starts in the backgroound at
sreangsu> login, which does the thing you ask. It goes something
sreangsu> like this
sreangsu> --------------------------------------------------------
>sreangsu> while (sleep 1m) do if [ /var/spool/mail/$USER -nt tm ]
>sreangsu> then echo -e " \a" touch tm fi done
>sreangsu> ----------------------------------------------------------
>sreangsu> hope it helps sreangsu
>
>Alternatively, run gkrellm and confugre it to play a sound whenever a
message is received, which is what I do.
>
>Regards,
>
>-- Raju
>
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