Re: biff and comsat don't work
If you use sendmail, put the following in your sendmail.mc:
FEATURE(local_procmail, /usr/bin/procmail)dnl
define(`LOCAL_MAILER_ARGS', `procmail -Y -d $u')dnl
If you don't use sendmail, I don't know where to make the config change,
but you want to pass procmail the arguments above. $u is... uh, I'm not
sure -- but if you use sendmail it'll work.
-Thomas (who's never used an MTA other than sendmail, because all the
others complain about his domain name violating an RFC.)
On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Max wrote:
> From: Max <davros@cyclone.stanford.edu>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 12:36:26 -0800 (PST)
> Subject: biff and comsat don't work
>
> I'm having a tough time getting biff to work properly. I have the
> following line in my /etc/services:
>
> biff 512/udp comsat
>
> and the following section in my /etc/xinetd.conf:
>
> service comsat
> {
> socket_type = dgram
> protocol = udp
> wait = yes
> user = root
> server = /usr/sbin/in.comsat
> }
>
> But I still cannot get biff to work even with "biff y"! I tried
> playing around with the MAIL and mail variables, but that didn't help
> either. All I want biff to do is to display the first 3 or so lines
> of a new message as soon as it arrives. Is there something else I
> need to do? The only error in the logfile that I can find is:
>
> Nov 2 12:35:43 chinook xinetd[27596]: bind failed (Address already in use). service = netbios-ns
>
> But netbios-ns is on a different port than comsat, so I don't see how
> this should make a difference.
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Max
>
>
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