Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!twwells!bill From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5 Subject: Re: Bug in mailx(1) Message-ID: <1989Aug17.003619.579@twwells.com> Date: 17 Aug 89 00:36:19 GMT References: <14551@bfmny0.UUCP> Organization: None, Ft. Lauderdale, FL Lines: 12 In article <14551@bfmny0.UUCP> tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff) writes: : Anyway, when you run mailx(1), which I'm not sure why anyone in his : right mind would to begin with, the -e option (check for mail and report : results via the exit code) leaves a very nice little lock file dangling : after it exits (e.g., /usr/mail/tneff.lock). It's a known bug. :-( The workaround is to just check for the mailbox yourself: if [ -s /usr/mail/tneff ];.... --- Bill { uunet | novavax | ankh | sunvice } !twwells!bill bill@twwells.com