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From: cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: newmail also displays on console (bug)
Message-ID: <127@titania.warwick.ac.uk>
Date: 24 Mar 89 13:39:36 GMT
References: <316@wubios.wustl.edu> <890002@hpausla.HP.COM> <9120@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Reply-To: cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon)
Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK
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In article <9120@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) writes:
>For systems with csh and job control, you could use the new newmail and put
>"/bin/kill -1 -1" in .logout.  This probably has bad effects for root and if
>you are logged in more than once.  Code for a better solution would be
>welcomed.

... and if you've got any background jobs you want to survive.  Nobody yet
seems to have suggested a better method than to stash a copy of getlogin()
away when you start up, and to compare that with the current value just before
checking for mail, exiting if they don't match.

Rob
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