Alan Peery writes: >2) Figure out how to trigger a program every time the shell prompt was >being reissued, so that small client executable or shell built-in could >contact the server and find what mail had arrived. Under bash, use the PROMPT_COMMAND environment variable. Tet -- Gllug mailing list - Gllug at linux.co.uk http://list.ftech.net/mailman/listinfo/gllug