F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

Eric Smith brouhaha at fedoraproject.org
Mon Jul 15 21:47:06 UTC 2013


On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Till Maas <opensource at till.name> wrote:
> Oh, sorry, I was imprecise. Bash actually tells you when new mail is put
> into the spool. E.g. if you log in as root, touch /var/spool/root and
> wait up to 60 seconds and run e.g. ls, bash should tell you that there
> is new mail before the next prompt.

Sure. And how often does a typical user log in as root to discover that email?

Even on systems I administer myself, I don't log in as root, or su,
all that often.

Eric


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