On Wednesday 04 October 2006 10:12, Thomas Johnson wrote: > I'm testing a particular issue pertaining to SMTP for a client (the > issue is irrelevant) and I have been sending huge amounts of mail > between two SMTP hosts. The irritating thing that I am running into > is that every time the servers receive a message to root I get a > new mail notification on every root shell I have open to the > system: > > New mail for root at slackware102 has arrived: > ---- > > This gets irritating in a big hurry when I fire off a script that > generates 40000 messages and I'm trying to look at other things as > root. I know there are ways to work around this (sending mail to > another user, sudo, etc.), but I would prefer to just suppress the > messages if possible. I tried googling this and didn't find > anything useful, I'm not even sure what service is responsible for > printing the messages. > > Cheers, It's your shell that's generating the messages. Depending on the shell you may be able to disable it or just set the MAIL or MAILPATH environment variables to something besides /var/mail/root or wherever the mail is ending up on your system. See the manpages for whichever shell you're using for exact details. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel