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From: marki@hpiacla.HP.COM (Mark Ikemoto)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: q: being notified of new mail
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Date: Fri, 20-Nov-87 22:32:05 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 20 22:32:05 1987
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>In HP-UX I write
>
>        set mail = (60 /usr/mail/$LOGNAME /etc/motd)
>
>and get notified if, within the last 60 seconds, there is new mail
>for me or if there is a new "message-of-the-day" (motd).

How did you get this to work?  I've tried it on my 9000/350 and it
doesn't notify me.  I had to create a shell script that I run in the
background at the start of my session to check for mail periodically.

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If anyone out there is interested in getting a copy of this shell
script (it is documented profusely internally and has error-checking),
send me a message.


Mark