On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Conrad Parker wrote: > 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:
Not quite there is no terminals in use. It's a machine alongside another machine with a monitor switch. I just want to make it beep once a minute or so to give the hint to switch over and look at any new email :-) > > 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
