On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 10:34:17AM +1000, Jeffrey Borg wrote: > Hi, > > This is something I have looked into before without much success. > > I am after a "xbiff" but one which just makes the pc speaker beep when new > mail is waiting for the user. I.e If there are any unread messages just > beep the speaker. This would just run from cron every minute to notify the > user of new email.
untested, but putting this in your .bashrc should do the trick: MAILPATH='/var/mail/jeffrey?"\a"' (search for MAIL in the bash man page for details on the related options; \a is ctrl-g, ie. the 'beep' character, other text between the quotes will be printed on the terminal. Note this is invoked directly by the shell not cron). Conrad. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
