Owen Kelly burst across the net:
>A user on my box has a prompt when he logs in "You have new mail", and
>on typing 'mail', gets "You have no mail". Im at a loss ... any ideas?
has this been happening since the first? is there a line in the users
.{profile|bash_profile|cshrc|tcshrc} that says:
echo "You have new mail"
alternatively, did ths just happen once? do they run fortune?
kevin
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