Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!ukc!acorn!moncam!harry From: harry@moncam.co.uk (Jangling Neck Nipper) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: how do I stop uucico mailing uucp? Message-ID: Date: 17 Jul 89 18:41:33 GMT Sender: harry@moncam.co.uk Distribution: all Organization: Monotype ADG, Cambridge, UK. Lines: 19 I like to have uucp mail forwarded to me, in case things go wrong. However, since changing from ukuucp (2.0) to Sun uucp (release 4.0.1, sorry, don't know the uucp version), I've had TWO mail messages for every call of uucico (even when there's NO WORK) and a further two for every call of uuxqt whenever there's mail or news. That's a couple of hundred a day, and I'm getting sore fingies. I've put `-z' flags in sendmail.cf where uux is called, just to be sure, but that doesn't make any difference, but since I get it when there's no work, that's not surprising. Soo, am I stuck with this mail, or is there a secret flag I can set? I tried editing the uucico binary to replace the reference to /bin/mail with /bin/something-four-chars-long (which echoed the args to a file), but unbelievably, this didn't work!!! But that's by the by. I don't really want to write a filter to `mail -f /usr/spool/mail/uucp' to delete all entries with message uuxqt cmd () status (exit 0, signal 0) so I'm stuck with ploughing through the pointless reminders that its attempts to do nothing were a complete success!!!