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You have mail Wav.

I would like to setup a "You have Mail" wav file so when a user logs into the server and if they have mail it will play the wav over their speakers. Or put a window up on their system. Which ever way would be easier.

Is there an easy way to do this.

Thanks
Bob Ross

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bross073097

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They log in with PAP, I'm not sure which login shell is used.

I will try the above and let you know.

Thanks for the quick response.

Bob Ross

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bross073097

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It's not mentioned there, it is in mgetty.config, it shows bin/login

Thanks
Bob Ross

bross073097

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You mention your_wv_playing_program.

I'm not sure what to put here. In an html, I just tell it to play a wave and it does. This will play on the user end after they get connected if it does.

Thanks
Bob

bross073097

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mgetty uses it's own login, I found login.c. My system is set for AutoPPP, the password file does not give a shell unless I give a shell account /bin/bash, all other users get /dev/null so they can't log in at the prompt.

I can send it to you if you want.

Thanks
Bob Ross

ahoffmann

Send it (email), it's nice to see other/new configurations :-)

You may find your_wv_playing_program in your servers mime.types configuration file.
Or search with:
find / -xdev -perm +x -name '*wav*' -print

Ciao
Achim hoagascht@gmx.net

bross073097

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The mime.types show

audio/x-wav wav

That's it.

Bob

ahoffmann

mime.types was useless, sorry.

On my system the programs are named play and x-play

bross073097

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Any other Idea to make this work?.

Thanks
Bob Ross