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Bruce Perens wrote:
> > 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).
(Yes, it looks like I installed it with the biff package...)
So I should disable it?
How do I do that?
My problem is: I don't know which files determine which daemons run...
I guess it's written down somewhere in the man pages, but where?
Thanks,
-Michael
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