You may have figured this out by now but I was just poking around in /etc/pam.d/sshd and there's a line in here about # Print the status of the user's mailbox upon successful login. session optional pam_mail.so standard noenv # [1] You might could comment this out and it stop that, I'm not real sure. Scotty On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Jared Breland <jbreland@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > well then, since I have everyone's attention... :-) > > How do I prevent bash from checking for e-mail on the local system at > login? Eg.: > > jbreland@showdog ~ $ ssh boxdog > No mail. > Last login: Fri Aug 1 10:00:19 2008 from showdog.legroom.net > jbreland@boxdog ~ $ > > The only thing I've been able to find through Google is the MAILCHECK > variable. It's suggested that I 'unset' it in my profile, but this > check seems to occur before my profile/rc files are even processed. > > I'm pretty sure I asked about this a long time ago on another system, > but I can't for anything remember how to do it. > > Anyone know this off the top of their head? > > - -- > Jared Breland > jbreland@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.legroom.net/ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFIkyluSDSVchUlwqARAm55AKDOVqjTmg+q6XI3Xf9J7HBWIhKAXACfdZdc > 7AFe7MI7GD5PixkwwTbgqsE= > =YI48 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >