Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Wednesday 2005-11-02 at 19:31 -0800, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

> bash: /dev/console: Permission denied
> You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/cwsiv
> 
> Seems to give me an error plus an unrelated message.

I already said how to solve that. Read again:

> > Ah, it is documented:
> > 
> >   What this means is that root can always make beep work (to the best 
> >   of my knowledge!), and that any local user can make beep work, BUT a 
> >   non-root remote user cannot use beep in it's natural state.  What's 
> >   worse, an xterm, or other x-session counts, as far as the kernel is 
> >   concerned, as 'remote', so beep won't work from a non-priviledged 
> >   xterm either.  I had originally chalked this up to a bug, but 
> >   there's actually nothing I can do about it, and it really is a Good 
> >   Thing that the kernel does things this way.  There is also a 
> >   solution.
> > 
> > (he recommends making it suid)


> plus an unrelated message.
> I had downloaded email ten minutes before and hung up the phone line.

It is not exactly unrelated. Every time you time you press "enter" on a 
terminal, it checks to see if you have new _system_ mail. Remember that 
cron and other tasks can send you email.

- -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson

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