Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!decwrl!shelby!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!kannel!Kimmo.Suominen From: Kimmo.Suominen@lut.fi (Kimmo Suominen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: comsat porting problem Message-ID: Date: 30 Sep 90 19:54:03 GMT References: <12844@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> Sender: kim@lut.fi (Kimmo Suominen) Organization: Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland Lines: 31 In-Reply-To: heather@sdcc4.ucsd.edu's message of 28 Sep 90 23:10:21 GMT Disclaimer: These are my opinions unless otherwise stated >>>>> On 28 Sep 90 23:10:21 GMT, heather@sdcc4.ucsd.edu (Heather Ebey) said: Heather> Checking for last access time (after sending myself countless mail Heather> messages), it appears that comsat is never run by inetd and I'm Heather> not getting notification. [I have biff y (checked it).] Heather> Is there some magic that I haven't remembered? It seemd to me, that nothing calls out for biff. The local delivery agent of sendmail should do that, but if you are using the HP default /bin/rmail as the agent, then that's your problem. I installed a biff and a comsat on the S800 I keep running, and I had to also install a front end to rmail (rmail-biff), which calls for comsat (through inetd) every time a local delivery is made by sendmail. It then execs the standard /bin/rmail to store the message in the mailbox it was ment to go into. You can find the code I'm using from lut.fi. Try anonymous ftp outside local office hours (after 5pm GMT and before 5am GMT - it's winter time again) and retrieve the file /unix/misc/biff.tar.Z using binary mode (of course). It should include everything you need already ported to run on HP-UX. I didn't port it, so don't come after me if you have problems. I just followed the instructions (included) and everything works fine now. -- Kim / Internet: Kimmo.Suominen@lut.fi "That's what I think." / Bitnet: KIM@FINFILES