From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Sep 8 19:07:15 2021 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5090567FE4E for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2021 19:07:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.82.1d4d400033316d2.ae399cc7f45d7f7ad48d7fd850822650@email-od.com) Received: from s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com (s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com [142.0.176.198]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4H4Wpp2rNnz3Qtd for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2021 19:07:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.82.1d4d400033316d2.ae399cc7f45d7f7ad48d7fd850822650@email-od.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=email-od.com;i=@email-od.com;s=dkim; c=relaxed/relaxed; q=dns/txt; t=1631128034; x=1633720034; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:message-id:subject:cc:to:from:date:x-thread-info; bh=ySnVOeoUeQ8hWBE3f8AnRm9EYGtKq+h0Vf2g26JqJWo=; b=kxXzRNwnyoMcZI5e7W6hG+x2rxVSGVFJ0gaVjzClTfstZLjROOdwGGasxIr3zUhUHbaxiHC8ULstdbtq6vnVBr3HSv4hfBjXeM7zUxykb1bR950/EFSvc1LiUReRM8YNKG2tK13PLk15QgJoQDDaA+OumO1U+NzUB5jqVdZC3pg= X-Thread-Info: NDI1MC4xMi4xZDRkNDAwMDMzMzE2ZDIuZnJlZWJzZC1xdWVzdGlvbnM9ZnJlZWJzZC5vcmc= Received: from r3.h.in.socketlabs.com (r3.h.in.socketlabs.com [142.0.180.13]) by mxsg2.email-od.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Wed, 8 Sep 2021 15:07:11 -0400 Received: from smtp.lan.sohara.org (EMTPY [185.202.17.215]) by r3.h.in.socketlabs.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Wed, 8 Sep 2021 15:07:09 -0400 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.94 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1mO2ua-000G3G-BW; Wed, 08 Sep 2021 20:07:08 +0100 Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2021 20:07:08 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: Matthias Apitz 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.33; amd64-portbld-freebsd12.1) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4H4Wpp2rNnz3Qtd X-Spamd-Bar: -- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=email-od.com header.s=dkim header.b=kxXzRNwn; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of 4250.82.1d4d400033316d2.ae399cc7f45d7f7ad48d7fd850822650@email-od.com designates 142.0.176.198 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=4250.82.1d4d400033316d2.ae399cc7f45d7f7ad48d7fd850822650@email-od.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-2.70 / 15.00]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[email-od.com:s=dkim]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip4:142.0.176.0/20]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[sohara.org]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[4]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[email-od.com:+]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-1.00)[-1.000]; FORGED_SENDER(0.30)[steve@sohara.org,4250.82.1d4d400033316d2.ae399cc7f45d7f7ad48d7fd850822650@email-od.com]; RWL_MAILSPIKE_POSSIBLE(0.00)[142.0.176.198:from]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:7381, ipnet:142.0.176.0/22, country:US]; FROM_NEQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[steve@sohara.org,4250.82.1d4d400033316d2.ae399cc7f45d7f7ad48d7fd850822650@email-od.com]; MAILMAN_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-questions]; DWL_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[email-od.com:dkim] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2021 19:07:15 -0000 On Wed, 8 Sep 2021 14:45:36 +0200 Matthias Apitz 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