tpc@bnr-fos.UUCP (Thomas Chmara) (02/17/90)
Now I AM puzzled. We've got a number of HP machines here, currently running HP-UX 6.5 (they're pretty much exclusively 350s & 360s). I was providing a friend with some X software, including xbiff. He tried it; xbiff displayed its icon, but didn't notify him of incoming mail. I tried poking around the HP environment, and can't find any mention of comsat, the program from which xbiff would get its notification. Why NOT? It seems pretty silly to provide mailx, but not comsat. Is it available in HP-UX 7.0? Sigh. Thanks for any help... ---tpc--- -- I am sole owner of the above opinions. Licensing inquiries welcome. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Chmara | UUCP: ..uunet!bnrgate!bnr-fos!tpc | Fone: (613)765-2925 BNR Ltd. | BITNET: TPC@BNR.CA | FAX: (613)763-2626
edwin@praxis.cs.ruu.nl (Edwin Kremer) (02/19/90)
In article <2441@bnr-fos.UUCP> tpc@bnr-fos.UUCP (Thomas Chmara) writes: | Now I AM puzzled. We've got a number of HP machines here, currently running | HP-UX 6.5 (they're pretty much exclusively 350s & 360s). I was providing | a friend with some X software, including xbiff. He tried it; xbiff | displayed its icon, but didn't notify him of incoming mail. Hmm, now I am also somewhat puzzled... I have a version of xbiff, which is just a simple wrapper around the Xaw mailbox widget. It does not require comsat, it simply checks the mail-folder itself... Anyway, there's something else you might have ran into. Since Xaw is not supported in de HP-UX6.5 X11 release, I had to port the Xaw and Xmu libraries from the X11R3 release. The Xaw mailbox widget uses the mailbox-directory "/usr/spool/mail", which should be "/usr/mail" in HP-UX (and other SysV alikes). There is a define for this in the X11 include files "MailboxP.h", change this to: #define MAILBOX_DIRECTORY "/usr/mail" and recompile the libraries. Hope this is of any help... --[ Edwin ]-- -- Edwin Kremer (SysAdm), Dept. of Computer Science, Utrecht University Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands Telephone: +31-30-534104 | UUCP: ...!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!edwin Telefax : +31-30-513791 | Email: edwin@cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5]
wunder@hp-ses.SDE.HP.COM (Walter Underwood) (02/20/90)
... There is a define for this in the X11 include files "MailboxP.h",
change this to:
#define MAILBOX_DIRECTORY "/usr/mail"
and recompile the libraries.
Overkill. Use the resources. Here are my Xt resources for xbiff:
XBiff*file: /usr/mail/wunder
XBiff*update: 3
XBiff*foreground: LightSteelBlue
XBiff*background: MidnightBlue
XBiff*reverseVideo: True
wunderwunder@hp-ses.SDE.HP.COM (Walter Underwood) (02/20/90)
Another approach is to make /usr/spool/mail a symbolic link to /usr/mail. wunder
tpc@bnr-fos.UUCP (Thomas Chmara) (02/20/90)
In article <2453@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> edwin@praxis.cs.ruu.nl (Edwin Kremer) writes: >Hmm, now I am also somewhat puzzled... I have a version of xbiff, >which is just a simple wrapper around the Xaw mailbox widget. It does >not require comsat, it simply checks the mail-folder itself... See the egg on my face? Yep, it's there, alright. I've been informed through several mechanisms that xbiff stats the mailbox itself, and doesn't use the facilities of comsat. The thing that confused me was that I also tried to find "biff", which of course does use comsat, and discovered it also was absent. I mistakenly thought that the xbiff used the same mechanism; I don't have the sources immediately available, and didn't worry about that. After all, *I* have comsat, so doesn't everyone? :-) (some Suncentrism, here, I suppose..:-)) Thanks for all the help ---tpc--- -- I am sole owner of the above opinions. Licensing inquiries welcome. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Chmara | UUCP: ..uunet!bnrgate!bnr-fos!tpc | Fone: (613)765-2925 BNR Ltd. | BITNET: TPC@BNR.CA | FAX: (613)763-2626
tomg@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Thomas J. Gilg) (02/21/90)
Real simple approach: xbiff -file /usr/mail/tomg Thomas Gilg tomg@cv.hp.com
cheeks@edsr.eds.com (Mark Costlow) (02/21/90)
In article <920055@hp-ses.SDE.HP.COM>, wunder@hp-ses.SDE.HP.COM (Walter Underwood) writes: > Another approach is to make /usr/spool/mail a symbolic link to > /usr/mail. R4's Mailbox widget is ifdef'd on SYSV to use /usr/mail instead of /usr/spool/mail. >>Chx cheeks@edsr.eds.com or ...uunet!edsr!cheeks