This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: Need Help With Phone Pranksters
Article: 7444 of alt.hackers From: gene@insti.physics.sunysb.edu (Eugene Tyurin) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: Need Help With Phone Pranksters Date: 23 Feb 1995 20:14:38 GMT Organization: Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stony Brook University Lines: 28 Approved: Hillary R. Clinton <president@whitehouse.gov> Message-ID: 3iiqbe$sb7@adam.cc.sunysb.edu Reply-To: gene@insti.physics.sunysb.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: unive.physics.sunysb.edu Status: RO
>>>>> Greg "Torgo" Anderson
<ande0870@gold.tc.umn.edu> writes:
> Ob.loginhack
> After a recent OS upgrade for the Sun's here, the little "You
have new
> mail" message no longer appeared on login. So, to quickly fix
that, I
> just added the line 'finger -ml ande0870 | grep -i mail' to my .login.
Yeah, DOS experience shows... :)
Obbetterloginandnotevenhack:
if [ -s $MAIL ]; then
echo "You have mail"
else
echo "Nobody loves you"
fi
Obantithiefhack:
This was before the pull-out stereos... Made a rectangular hole
in the back wall of the glove compartment and put my car stereo
there.
--
Eugene Tyurin, Inst. for Theoretical Physics - Stony Brook Univ.
WWW: http://www.physics.sunysb.edu:80/~gene/plan.html
Internet: gene@insti.physics.sunysb.edu
Those who don't understand Unix are doomed to reinvent it, poorly.
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