Ok, I understand what its trying to do, but since I'm stupid, where do I put
it? If I put it in my .bash_profile it works only when I'm logged in, but
not when I'm logged in?
I guess what I'm asking for is to have finger work when I'm not logged in.
Do I have to hack the finger source?
Thanks alot everyone for the help!!
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:15:08PM -0500, "David W. Tamkin"
<dattier(_at_)ripco(_dot_)com> wrote:
Edward Sabol suggested to Chris S.:
| There's no solution for finger that I know of, unless you want to continue
to
| file your non-mailing list e-mails in /var/spool/mail/username.
I'm wondering if this will do it (assuming $SHELL is set to /bin/sh or some-
thing compatible); it seems to work here:
# apostrophes, not backticks
TRAP='test -s $ORGMAIL && touch $ORGMAIL || echo >> $ORGMAIL'
In other words, if the spool is non-empty, update its modification time;
if the spool is empty (of if the touch command didn't work), append a
newline to it. That will make sure that whenever you receive mail your spool
file is non-empty (just a newline in it, not any mail) and freshly marked as
modified.
If your fingerd reports unread mail if the spool is empty but freshly
touched, you can do this:
TRAP='touch $ORGMAIL' # setting of $SHELL won't matter
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