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dwn
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 Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 12:16 pm Post subject: Print number of messages in mail spool at login [solved] |
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Today, as I sshed into my school's UNIX server, I noticed that everytime I logged in, the terminal would tell me whether I had new messages in my mail spool or not. For example, "You have mail." or "No new mail.". I was wondering if someone knew, off the top of their head how to set that up. Would it be just a bash script checking the return type of: and printing out the apporpiate responce? Or is there something a little more fancy? Thanks.
Also, when I was trying to compile net-mail/mailutils-0.3 I got this compile error: | Code: | mu_auth.c:89:13: pasting "->" and "name" does not give a valid preprocessing token
mu_auth.c:89:13: pasting "," and "name" does not give a valid preprocessing token
mu_auth.c:89:13: pasting "(" and "name" does not give a valid preprocessing token
mu_auth.c:90:15: pasting "->" and "passwd" does not give a valid preprocessing token
mu_auth.c:90:15: pasting "," and "passwd" does not give a valid preprocessing token
mu_auth.c:90:15: pasting "(" and "passwd" does not give a valid preprocessing token
mu_auth.c:91:14: pasting "->" and "gecos" does not give a valid preprocessing token
mu_auth.c:91:14: pasting "," and "gecos" does not give a valid preprocessing token
mu_auth.c:91:14: pasting "(" and "gecos" does not give a valid preprocessing token
mu_auth.c:92:12: pasting "->" and "dir" does not give a valid preprocessing token
mu_auth.c:92:12: pasting "," and "dir" does not give a valid preprocessing token
mu_auth.c:92:12: pasting "(" and "dir" does not give a valid preprocessing token
mu_auth.c:93:14: pasting "->" and "shell" does not give a valid preprocessing token
mu_auth.c:93:14: pasting "," and "shell" does not give a valid preprocessing token
mu_auth.c:93:14: pasting "(" and "shell" does not give a valid preprocessing token
mu_auth.c:94:16: pasting "->" and "mailbox" does not give a valid preprocessing token
mu_auth.c:94:16: pasting "," and "mailbox" does not give a valid preprocessing token
mu_auth.c:94:16: pasting "(" and "mailbox" does not give a valid preprocessing token
mu_auth.c: In function `mu_get_auth_by_name':
mu_auth.c:168: warning: passing arg 3 of `mu_auth_runlist' discards qualifiers from pointer target type
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" -I. -I. -I.. -I../include -I../mailbox -I../mailbox/include -I../include/mailutils/gnu -DSYSCONFDIR=\"/etc\" -DSITE_VIRTUAL_PWDDIR=\"/etc/domain\" -march=pentium2 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -MT mu_argp.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/mu_argp.Tpo -c mu_argp.c -o mu_argp.o >/dev/null 2>&1
make[3]: *** [mu_auth.lo] Error 1
make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
mv -f .libs/mu_argp.lo mu_argp.lo
make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/mailutils-0.3/work/mailutils-0.3/mailbox'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/mailutils-0.3/work/mailutils-0.3/mailbox'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/mailutils-0.3/work/mailutils-0.3'
make: *** [all] Error 2
!!! ERROR: net-mail/mailutils-0.3 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 41, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message) |
Any idea why? Thanks again.
Last edited by dwn on Tue Apr 27, 2004 11:30 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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adaptr
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| Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 2:07 pm Post subject: |
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Uncomment the mailcheck lines in
/etc/pam.d/login or /etc/pam.d/ssh, or whatever program of your choice.
That will give you the standard mailcheck.
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dwn
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| Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 2:48 pm Post subject: |
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This is the contents of /etc/pam.d/login | Code: | #%PAM-1.0
auth required /lib/security/pam_securetty.so
auth required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth
auth required /lib/security/pam_nologin.so
account required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth
password required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth
session required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth
session optional /lib/security/pam_console.so |
/etc/pam.d/sshd isn't any more help. |
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adaptr
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| Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 2:50 pm Post subject: |
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You want to add
| Code: | | session optional pam_mail.so standard noenv |
to those files.
I thought it would be included & commented by default, but there you have it...
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dwn
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| Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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excellent, thanks adaptr
--edit:
Okay, I did that and I works in so far as it runs =)
...but I am finding this error in my /var/log/auth.log | Code: | Mar 17 17:52:10 dwn sshd[8521]: Accepted keyboard-interactive/pam for dwnadmin from 192.168.0.125 port 34288 ssh2
Mar 17 17:52:10 dwn sshd(pam_unix)[8525]: session opened for user dwnadmin by (uid=0)
Mar 17 17:52:10 dwn PAM-mail[8525]: conversation failure [Conversation error] |
I have added the debug argument to the line, but the debug information isn't showing up in my syslog... Ideas? |
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adaptr
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| Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 9:28 am Post subject: |
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Do you get the mail notification ?
If so, it may be a trivial thing, if not - you probably need one ore more PAM modules.
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dwn
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| Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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No, I don't get the mail notification.
I figured out the problem with emerging mailutils, I just emerged 3.1 instead of 3.0 and it worked, so if I cannot get this PAM module to work it is not the end of the world since I can just make a simple if statement: | Code: | | if ( `mail -e` ); then echo "you have mail";fi |
and throw that into the login script. But, I would prefer to get that working. |
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dwn
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 11:28 pm Post subject: |
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Okay, I just updated to net-misc/openssh-3.8_p1 and it solved everything. I had added the mail pam module to the pam sshd config.
| Code: | | # echo 'session optional pam_mail.so debug standard' >> /etc/pam.d/sshd |
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