On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Till Maas <opensou...@till.name> wrote: > Oh, sorry, I was imprecise. Bash actually tells you when new mail is put > into the spool. E.g. if you log in as root, touch /var/spool/root and > wait up to 60 seconds and run e.g. ls, bash should tell you that there > is new mail before the next prompt.
Sure. And how often does a typical user log in as root to discover that email? Even on systems I administer myself, I don't log in as root, or su, all that often. Eric -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
