Re: what's "comsat" for?
In article <[🔎] m0uBlwe-00063bC@mongo.pixar.com> you write:
>> 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).
Well, it isn't in either of the BSD packages (bsdutils or bsdmainutils),
and it isn't installed on my system either, sorry.
Austin
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