Check out 'man sh' and in particular the MAILPATH variable. In brief, setting it to '/var/spool/mail/my_user_name?"You have mail."' will cause it to print "You have mail." when you receive mail. If you can work control-G into that message then it should beep when you receive mail, assuming that bash works the same as sh and that control-G is the same ascii value as it was on the old Z80 based amstrad machines ;-)
Good luck! Tom Chris Jenks wrote: > > At 01:21 PM 2/11/02, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > >Of course, I realize that one solution for this is to keep Pine open all > >the time in one of my consoles, but I wondered whether or not there are > >other solutions. > > > >-- > > Cheryl > > I know that biff is used for mail notification. Not exactly sure how it is > used, > but it something to check into. > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
