hg1915@milton.u.washington.edu (Helen Gottschalk) (02/05/91)
I have problem to get my biff/comsat function correctly. Everything sounds in places. /etc/services has biff as 512/udp and inetd.conf will bring up the comsat in incoming message. My guess is that no message is ever arrive in that port. Which process will send message to biff port? Is local sendmail or remote sendmail or someone else? Any suggestion ? Thanks, Jessie ---- SpaceLabs Inc. hg1915@milton.u.washington.edu Redmond, WA
rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) (02/05/91)
In article <15767@milton.u.washington.edu> hg1915@milton.u.washington.edu (Helen Gottschalk) writes: > > I have problem to get my biff/comsat function correctly. Everything sounds > My guess is that no message is ever arrive in that port. Which process >will send message to biff port? Is local sendmail or remote sendmail or 'sendmail' itself has nothing to do with biff. On a standard BSD system, it is /bin/mail which forwards a packet to 'comsat' for the biff message. Usually /bin/mail is used as the local mailer for delivery to a mailbox. A common cause for biff 'failure' is that the local mail is not really delivered locally, but is forwarded to a file server for deposit in your mail spool directory which your client machine is NFS mounting. In such a case 'biff' presumably works when you are logged into the server machine, but not if you are logged into one of the clients. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science <rickert@cs.niu.edu> Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940