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From: moj@mirfak.UTU.FI (Matti Jokinen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Calendar
Keywords: Software
Message-ID: <9691@brazos.Rice.edu>
Date: 6 Jul 90 11:45:44 GMT
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>One user on my network is getting 3 mail messages from
>calendar...one server is sending one, and the other server is sending 2,
>about 7 or 8 seconds apart.

At least in SunOS 4.0.3 there is a bug in /usr/bin/calendar: the messages
are sent twice if the userid is both in /etc/passwd and in the YP map.
Fortunately /usr/bin/calendar is a script and can be fixed easily:

27c27
>       $caldata |cat /etc/passwd - | grep -v '^[+-]' |\
---
<       $caldata |cat /etc/passwd - | grep -v '^[+-]' | sort -u |\