On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Andrea Venturoli <m...@netfence.it> wrote: > Hello. > > This evening something new appeared on my box. > When I open an xterm or a KDE shell, I get: > "You have 10 mail messages in /var/mail/." > > This does not happen when I login on ttyvX. > > Nothing mail related is on this box (apart from KMail and Thunderbird) and > "ls -l /var/mail" gives only zero size files, none of which is named after > me. > > My home is NFS mounted on a mail server, but that uses Cyrus IMAP, so, > again, nothing relevant is in /var/mail even there. > > Where do I look? > > This is no stopper, but I'm just curious... > > bye & Thanks > av.
Type "mail" man 1 mail FreeBSD has a daily cron security and status script that run and send email to root (which then is usually redirected to another user's account). This is probably what is sending the emails - check it and see. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
