TTYBIFF(1)

NAME
ttybiff - display new mail alerts

SYNOPSIS
ttybiff [-f file] [-u user] [-p number] [-s]

DESCRIPTION
This program is subsimed by xalert and will probably disappear from future releases.

Ttybiff is a simple program designed to display new message alerts on a users terminal. It does very little else, relying on its client to do all the hard work. It is normally run in the background. it displays the message on all terminals the user is logged onto on the current machine, or if that fails to the standard output.

It has the following options

-f file set the alert filename that ttybiff and
    flagmail communicate via. This defaults to the file .alert in your home directory. This file is created by ttybiff and read by flagmail

-u username
    Allows you to pretend to be the given user. This does not really do much as you will generally only get notified of messages to you, but it may be useful.

-p number
    Change the default udp port that ttybiff and flagmail communicate via (normally assigned by the system).

-s  Only display on the standard output, not on all terminals that the user is logged into.

FILES
~/.alert    The default alert file.

SEE ALSO
flagmail(1), ttyalert(1)
PP Manual - Volume 3: User Manual

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