On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:05:04 +0100 Andrea Venturoli wrote: > Steve Randall ha scritto:
> >> No mail for andrea > > Are there really two spaces in a row there? That's a vital clue. > Sure. I noticed that too, but though it might be normal. > > For > > some reason your 'USER' environment variable is set to ' andrea' (with a > > leading space). Then .cshrc sets the 'mail' shell variable to > > '(/var/mail/ andrea)'. That's now a list with two elements. Since the > > first is a directory, csh counts the files in it, assuming they are > > messages. > > > > Since you don't have this problem with console logins, look for a > > configuration error in your GUI login manager. > This is interesting... > Unfortunately (or luckily), today that message does not appear > anymore, so I can't check. Which message are you talking about? Is it a message "You have new mail"? The latter shows only once if there is a new mail. The system doesn't prompt you when there is unread mail. So you should actually read (and delete, save, etc.) your mail. -- WBR, bsam _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
