Very Computer

I am having a problem with a small script I wrote to overcome the problem
of beign able to check for presence of email in my account while  logging
on to different servers of the same network. The plan is to issue a rsh
command every time I log on to a server different that the one I have my
home account set up and as the command to be executed to give the name of
the script. The script I wrote for this purpose is as follows:

/bin/mail -e
switch($status)
case 0:
        echo "You have new email."
        breaksw;
case 1:
        echo "You have mail."
        breaksw;
endsw

I tried it but it comes up with an error message saying unexpected switch
statement. I am using tcsh on a Sun 5 machine. Does anyone have any
suggestion?

Thanks in advance.

George

Since you're not using any tcsh features in this script, I suggest
using

#!/bin/csh -f

as the first line.

You should also check the man page for /bin/mail.  An exit status of 0
says you have mail; an exit status of 1 says you don't.  It doesn't
distinguish between "you have mail" and "you have new mail".

(Some of us belong to so many mailing lists that we use a different
command to check whether we have new mail: /bin/true.)

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