[2878] in Athena Bugs
VS2 6.3B dotfiles & msgchk
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mar@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Aug 15 13:37:42 1989
From: <mar@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 89 13:37:25 -0400
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
I use rmail to read mail; I don't use MH. I don't like unused
directories littering my homedir (I believe that any directory listing
should fit on one screenful). So I don't have a ~/Mail directory.
The new dotfiles run msgchk at login time, which results in:
Your MH-directory "/afs/athena/mit/mar/Mail" doesn't exist; Create it? msgchk: unable to access MH-directory "/afs/athena/mit/mar/Mail"
It doesn't seem that msgchk really needs this directory. But I'm
willing to believe that it does.
So I don't want msgchk called when I login. But it's not in one of my
dotfiles, it's in the global xsession file. I could define
skip_x_startup to bypass that (why is msgchk part of X startup?), but
then I would have to put several lines of additional startup in my
.startup.X.
-Mark
