According to Ray Olszewski: While burning my CPU.
>
> The usual program that does this is "biff". In /etc/profile, you'll probably
> find a line that reads "biff y". To disable notification for everyone,
> comment it out or change it to "biff n". To disable notification just for
> one user, put in that user's .profile or .login file "biff n".
If this needs to be turned off for ALL users then i suggest editing
/etc/inted.conf and commenting out the line;
comsat dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.comsat
That has one advantage, less CPU time.
>
> If your system uses the shadow password system, it may also use the file
> /etc/login.defs to set defaults. In that case, to eliminate mail
> notification for everyone, comment out the line that reads: "MAIL_CHECK_ENAB
> YES".
>
> At 12:20 AM 2/3/99 +0300, Grigory V Semenov wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >Is there any way to turn off notification about new incoming mail when I am
> logged in? I use bash shell.
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >Greg
> >
> >
> ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN">
> ><HTML>
> ><HEAD>
> >
> ><META content=text/html;charset=koi8-r http-equiv=Content-Type>
> ><META content='"MSHTML 4.71.2110.0"' name=GENERATOR>
> ></HEAD>
> ><BODY bgColor=#ffffff>
> ><DIV><FONT color=#000000 face="Arial Cyr" size=2>Hello,</FONT></DIV>
> ><DIV><FONT color=#000000 face="Arial Cyr" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
> ><DIV><FONT color=#000000 face="Arial Cyr" size=2>Is there any way to turn off
> >notification about new incoming mail when I am logged in? I use bash
> >shell.</FONT></DIV>
> ><DIV><FONT color=#000000 face="Arial Cyr" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
> ><DIV><FONT color=#000000 face="Arial Cyr" size=2>Thanks</FONT></DIV>
> ><DIV><FONT color=#000000 face="Arial Cyr" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
> ><DIV><FONT color=#000000 face="Arial Cyr" size=2>Greg</FONT></DIV>
> ><DIV><FONT color=#000000 face="Arial Cyr" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
> ><DIV><FONT color=#000000 face="Arial Cyr"
> >size=2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>
> >
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