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Re: What is "comsat" for?



In your email to me, Michael Below, you wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> 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?

I believe that most daemons that start with 'in.' are run from inetd,
thus look in /etc/inetd.conf.

Tim

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