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From: dartvax!batcomputer!christos@uunet.uu.net (Christos S. Zoulas)
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Subject: Re: Sun 4.1.1 'biff y' problem :-(
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Date: 26 Jan 91 05:49:26 GMT
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In article <1450@brchh104.bnr.ca> shahryar@eris.berkeley.edu (Persian Nightmare) writes:
>I have a problem with the 'biff y' command on our Sun 4.1.1 system.  Ever
>since we have switched to Sun 4.1 OS, I have never been able to get the
>'biff y' command to work.  The weird thing is that only a few users does
>this command work for, and for some it doesn't {including our Sys Admin}.

You should get the sources for in.comsat from a 4.3 BSD system, compile
and install it. Sun broke in.comsat in 4.1 for users with 8 character long
usernames.  My guess is that the code does an strcpy, instead of an
strncpy.  You can look for the core file of in.comsat in
/usr/spool/mqueue...

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