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Re: emacs and error message



On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 17:34, csj@mindgate.net wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 20:33:49 +0100,
> Stefano Calza wrote:
> >
> > When I start emacs on "testing" I get this message:
> > 
> > No /etc/mailname. Reverting to default
> > 
> > It hangs the starting for few seconds so I'd like to remove
> > it. How can I configure emacs not to ask for that file?
> 
> Why not just create it? As root: "cat /dev/null > /etc/mailname"

A wild suggestion: "touch /etc/mailname"

I always feel odd reading from /dev/null - expecting to get my eyes
sucked out in the process ;)
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