Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2021 20:07:08 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: monitoring incoming mailbox in console mode Message-ID: <20210908200708.4358a4b4aa7a36a0179a5d1b@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20210908124536.GA17@sh4-5.1blu.de> References: <20210908124536.GA17@sh4-5.1blu.de>
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On Wed, 8 Sep 2021 14:45:36 +0200 Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote: > I want to monitor my mailbox below /var/mail/... when the system is only > running in console mode, i.e. w/o X11 and KDE desktop. On new mail, i.e. > when the last modified date of the mbox file is changing, it should > produce the normal BEL signal. Do we have something in ports before I > write my own script? Not in the ports, in the base system but I think biff(1) does what you want. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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