thx for getting back to me neil. i did check out your suggestion
and started an xterm +ut
the who command now shows
%who
simon tty1 Apr 20 18:22
simon pts/3 Apr 21 17:47
where the pts/3 entry is the new xterm. however when i
i still do not get any kind of notification when i recieve
new mail in this "good" xterm. any other ideas on this?
also do you happen to know what entry i should have in the
.Xdefaults to get the +ut set for every xterm that gets
started?
rgds. -simon-
> "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
>
-- Simon Butler. [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
