79174 – Bash displays erroneous "you have mail in /home/username" message

Bug 79174 - Bash displays erroneous "you have mail in /home/username" message

Summary: Bash displays erroneous "you have mail in /home/username" message

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 81421

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	PAM Gentoo Team (OBSOLETE)

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Reported:	2005-01-22 21:46 UTC by David Held
Modified:	2005-07-17 13:06 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description David Held 2005-01-22 21:46:45 UTC

With a brand new install of Gentoo using bash3, the following environment variables are set in the bash shell:

MAIL=/home/username/
MAILCHECK=60

This causes a message like "you have mail in /home/username" to be displayed on the shell every minute or so with a new line.

I'm not sure exactly where these variables are coming from as they weren't in any of my .bash* or .profile files, nor did I see them in /etc, but they should not be set like this.

Reproducible: Always
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Portage 2.0.51-r14 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.5,
glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.10 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.10 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.70GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.8
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Jan 21 2005, 20:17:38)]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r5
sys-devel/automake:  1.8.5-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.2-r7
virtual/os-headers:  2.4.21-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache digest distlocks sandbox sfperms userpriv"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X acpi alsa avi berkdb bindist bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups dvd encode
esd f77 fam font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml
icq imap imlib ipv6 jpeg libg++ libwww mad maildir mikmod mmx motif mozilla
moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mpeg msn ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oscar oss
pam pcmcia pda pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline rtc samba sdl spell
sqlite sse ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts trusted type1-fonts usb
videos wifi xml2 xmms xosd xv xvid zlib"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LDFLAGS

Comment 1 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-02-09 22:58:22 UTC

What version of sys-apps/shadow do you have installed ?

Comment 2 David Held 2005-02-09 23:12:51 UTC

sys-apps/shadow-4.0.5-r2

Comment 3 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-02-10 09:29:45 UTC

If you could please unmask sys-apps/shadow-4.0.5-r3 via 
/etc/portage/package.keywords on your system and update. It should be fixed
in that version and that fix is part of bug #70101 IIRC.

Marking as dup of #81421, as there is some more progress.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 81421 ***