CHECK-SENDFILE(1)

💌 CHECK-SENDFILE(1) — the "did my mail land??" check 💌

okay bestie, so this one's a little command from the Commands corner of the Debian GNU/Linux world, and honestly? it's giving "lowkey essential and nobody talks about it" energy. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

check-sendfile — literally just checks if some files have arrived 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

check-sendfile

that's it. no flags, no args, no drama. she's a simple girl. 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the vibe: check-sendfile runs a lil test to see if there are files hosed in the user's sendfile spool area. and if there are? he will be informed about the files. 🎀 like, congrats, you got mail, bestie!! 🫶

the way this is supposed to work is you start this command from /etc/profile — yes, the actual /etc/profile — so that all users get a chance to notice that some files have arrived while they were away. because here's the tea 🍓: the defauld behaviour of sendfiled is to write a note on the user's tty, which means if you're not logged in, you won't notice the receiption at all. 😭 like the files are just sitting there, unacknowledged, feral.

and this is why it's iconic, actually: the lack of need to be logged in is one of sendfile's advantages. no cap. the files wait for you. you don't wait for the files. 👑

🗂️ FILES 🗂️

• /var/spool/sendfile/$user — the spool area for the specifig user. 🌸 (yes it's per-user, yes it's cute, yes it's yours)

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• sendfile(1).

⭐ tiny note from me to you: run it from /etc/profile like the page says, otherwise your users are out here missing their files and that's just sad fr fr.

kisses, and happy file-receiving 💜 — this page came to you from Debian GNU/Linux, dated 11 Feb 1998, and it still slays. 🧚🌈💖