[arch-general] "You have mail" message at login
Krzysztof Warzecha
kwarzecha7 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 16 10:24:37 EDT 2012
2012/10/16 gt <static.vortex at gmx.com>:
> Any idea what's causing it to show up?
Well, you could always try brute force method. Login and run this as root:
strace -vft -p $TARGET_GETTY_PID -o /tmp/strace-getty
Now login in straced terminal, logout and grep for "New mail" in
/tmp/strace-getty. You will get (among other things) pid of process
which wrote "new mail" on screen. You can easily find (with grep)
parent process. I believe you know what to do from here ;).
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Krzysztof Warzecha
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