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- From: awk@flag.ece.cmu.edu (Tony Knaus)
- Subject: Re: Can't get async. mail notification (biff) to work in 4.2a...
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.144307.29127@fs7.ece.cmu.edu>
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- Organization: ECE Department, Carnegie Mellon University.
- References: <1992Jul29.000910.24786@ninja.csuohio.edu>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 14:43:07 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul29.000910.24786@ninja.csuohio.edu> misha@ninja.csuohio.edu (Misha Rekhson) writes:
- >
- >Sorry if this is trivial, but I don't seem to be able to find an answer
- >myself.
- >
- >After migrating to 4.2a from 4.1, asynchronous mail notification (ala
- >biff) stopped working. "biff y" seems to do what it's supposed to
- >(adds x permission to the device) but that has no apparent effect:
- >nothing appears on the terminal when mail comes in.
- >
- >Any useful suggestions?
- >
- >Thank you,
- >
- >
- >--
- >
- >Misha Rekhson Cleveland State University, Ohio
- >misha@ninja.csuohio.edu (216) 687-5283
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-
- That occasionally happens on our site too. When it does I make
- sure there are no comsat daemons running and then restart inetd.
-
-
- -tony
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