>Number:         29526
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       countmail gives erroe message on nonexistent mail-spool-file
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    misc-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Feb 25 11:20:00 +0000 2005
>Originator:     Andreas Eder
>Release:        2.0
>Organization:
>Environment:
NetBSD acer 2.0 NetBSD 2.0 (ACER) #3: Thu Feb 24 16:48:40 CET 2005 root@acer:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/ACER i386
>Description:
countmail gives an errormesasge on a nonexistent mail spool file

countmail
from: can't read /var/mail/are: No such file or directory
ZERO!

ZERO NEW MAIL MESSAGES!

HAHAHAHAHA!

>How-To-Repeat:
remove your empty spool file.
Some mailers do this - some don't :-)
>Fix:
chabge line 51 from
set -- `from | wc -l`
to
set -- `from 2>/dev/null |wc -l`