* Kurt Kehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I get the message "New mail for me@machine has arrived:" plus a beep for
> each message being retrieved. I'd like to disable this feature but am not
echo "biff n" >> ~/.profile RET [1]
source ~/.profile RET [2]
Explanation.
Slackware uses a program called "biff" to do the mail notification
thingie. It's loaded as "biff y" from /etc/profile (one of the
system-wide configuration files). To turn it off you just issue the
command "biff n".
Footnotes:
[1] Adds the line "biff n" to the end of ~/.profile, creating the
file if it doesn't exist. ~/.profile is a user configuration
file.
[2] Re-reads the contents of ~/.profile issuing any commands
contained in it.
--
---Regards, Steve Youngs--------Email:-<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>---
| If Microsoft is the answer, then all I can say is that |
| you are asking the wrong question. |
------------------------------<Don't be a Newbie--Be a Gnu-bie>---
