login's behaviour here makes me a little uncomfortable.

	Some options:
		a) Nuke the check from login altogether.
		b) Skip the check if root.
		c) Fork and have the child check, parent has timeout.

	I'm tending towards c) - what do people think?

		David/absolute

On Wed, 22 Dec 1999 mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:

> aah.  I do have mail on /u.  /var/mail is a symlink to /u/mail which is
> automounted.  Well, this may explain why I can't then login even as root.
> Root's shell is the default csh, but it looks like login(1) checks for
> mail.  
>