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From: paw@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Pat Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: console mail icon and RS6000s
Message-ID: <1991Feb21.221138.5121@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
Date: 21 Feb 91 22:11:38 GMT
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We're running console V7.6 (ATK 15.5) on our RS/6000s and are
having trouble getting the mail icon to behave - it appears, but
doesn't seem to figure out where the mailbox is (new mail is not 
registered, and clicking on it produces a "You have no mail" message
even when mail is present in the mailbox).

Has anyone seen this before?  

(I've also run into problems with the "mail icon" (really mailmonf) 
and /bin/ksh - looks to me that "$mail" must be defined, but if
"$MAIL" is defined (even if it's to the same thing!), CheckDir gets 
confused and starts sqwaking about /usr/spool/mail/{$USER} not being
a directory (which it's not).  Haven't figured out _why_ this is 
happening, just how to fix it.)

Thanks.

-- 
Pat Wilson
Systems Manager, Project NORTHSTAR
paw@northstar.dartmouth.edu


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