"Simon Butler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i been fiddling with this for a while now and have
> not been able to get it to fly so i thought i'd ask
> the experts.
> i'd like to get somekind of notice when i receive mail
> so i have this in my .maildelivery file
>* - ^ R /usr/bin/rcvtty -nobell*
>but this doesn't seem to do anything.
>according to the jerry peaks book rcvtty will send
>a message to all shells listed in my /var/run/utmp
>file, which doesnot seem to be ascii file so i can't
>see which shells are registered.
The 'who' command lists this.
>one possible problem is that when i run 'who' i get
>%who
>simon tty1 Apr 20 18:22
>but there are 4 xterms up so i'm not sure why they
>don't get mentioned in the who output.
That depends on how you start xterm. The '-ut' and '+ut' operands
can set whether an entry is made in utmp. (Offhand, I don't remember
which is which). Also your .Xdefaults can turn this on or off.
>%mesg
>is y
That only looks at the permissions of your tty.
-NWR
