Arun Khan grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 10:35 AM, David Guntner <[email protected]> wrote: >> Igor Cicimov grabbed a keyboard and wrote: >>> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 3:08 PM, David Guntner <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Does anyone know where the $MAIL environment variable get set when a >>>> user logs in? It's not in the ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc files that get >>>> put in when the account is created. I'm not sure where to look.... >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>> >>> /etc/profile >> >> That's where I figured it would be. It ain't there. :-) I've searched >> in the places I would expect to find it and several others that seemed >> like they'd be worth a shot (/etc/bash.bashrc, /etc/bash_completion, >> /etc/bash_completion.d, /etc/profile.d and of course, /etc/profile). >> Scored a big zero for my efforts. >> >> Is there somewhere else that it's likely to be hiding? > > MAIL is not set in my environment either (Wheezy/amd64).
Using squeeze here. Driving me crazy - it has to be getting set
*somewhere* in the system, but I'll be damned if I can find it....
> Try the following and see if it shows up in any file
>
> find $HOME -type f -exec egrep -Hn MAIL {} \;
Well, that dumped a lot of output from my home directory, but didn't
turn up a $MAIL variable being set anywhere... :-)
--Dave
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