[PLUG] More new experiences

[Michael Rasmussen]

On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 06:27:11AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
>   The most annoying one is something screwy with syslog.conf (attached) that
> allows all new incoming mail messages to activate the system speaker and
> overwrite the screen (in console mode) for each new message. 


Rich, 

How did you make a connection from syslog configuration to mail arrival
alerting?  

check your system for biff or xbiff, check your email reader (pine?) for
its default action on mail arrival.  Both of those have a vastly greater
possibility of beeping and blanking than syslog.  


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