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From: syd@dsinc.UUCP (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: newmail also displays on console (bug)
Keywords: newmail console bug
Message-ID: <80@dsinc.UUCP>
Date: 23 Feb 89 15:54:34 GMT
References: <316@wubios.wustl.edu>
Reply-To: syd@dsinc.UUCP (Syd Weinstein)
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc., Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006
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In article <316@wubios.wustl.edu> david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) writes:
>The newmail program displays its output not only on the users terminal,
>but on the system console, for all users using newmail.  They do not
>need to be logged in on the console for this to happen.  We consider
>this a security/privacy violation.  We are using a Sun 3/260 running 
>SunOS 4.0.1.
If you use c shell (csh), be aware that it starts backround jobs with
nohup.

If you start newmail as newmail& and you use the c shell, newmail
will not be killed when you logout as c shell will nohup it.

Thus when you log out, other users will still get the newmail output
to the terminal.

How to get around this:
Easy, when you configure elm, tell it that you always want newmail to
run in the backround.  Then just start newmail as newmail without the
& key.  It will fork it self, but still not be nohupped.  Then it will
exit when you logout.

This is not an Elm bug.

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