Re: what's "comsat" for?

[bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens)]

> When I'm looking into /var/log/daemon.log, I find in.comsat being started
> every 6 seconds, then refusing to work since the "internal" hostname isn't
> the one "externally" used, as far as I get it.

I think comsat must be in one of the two BSD utils packages. It's a mail
notification daemon used with "biff", and is a useless enough bit of fluff
that you can disable it. This should be reported as a bug on the package
that contains it (grep comsat /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list, it's not on my
system yet).

	Thanks

	Bruce
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