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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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in.comsat, comsat Biff Server

Synopsis

/usr/sbin/in.comsat

Description

in.comsat notifies users when new mail has arrived. The comsat server process is invoked as needed by inetd(1M), and times out if inactive for a few minutes.

in.comsat listens on a datagram port associated with the biff service specification (see services(4)) for one-line messages of the following form.

user@mailbox-offset

If the specified user is logged in to the system and has used biff y to enable notification of mail, the first 7 lines or 560 characters of the message are printed on the user's terminal. Lines that seem to be part of the message header other than the From, To, Date, or Subject lines are not printed when displaying the message.

Note

The message header ...

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