uevans@med.unc.edu (Elizabeth A. Evans) (05/23/91)
Speaking of biff... We're running a network of Sun servers and (mostly diskless) clients. Each client gets primary user disk space from one of the servers. This includes /var/spool/mail files. What this means is that the mail file is modified/appended on a server, not on the client where the user is actually logged in. Under this set of circumstances, biff doesn't seem to work for the user on the client. For example, I login (usually) to a client named cahaba. Cahaba is (mostly) diskless and gets my home directory space and /var/spool/mail file from a server named winton. I set biff y. If I'm logged into cahaba, nothing happens when mail is delivered. If I'm logged into the server, winton, biff works as usual. The Question Is, is there an (easy) easy to get biff to recognize this situation and to beep and print the first few lines if a user is logged into the client instead of the server where the mail file actually lives? -- Libby ============ Elizabeth A. Evans Office of Information Systems UNC-CH School of Medicine