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  1. Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!news.mtholyoke.edu!mcrowley
  3. From: mcrowley@mtholyoke.edu (Michael A. Crowley)
  4. Subject: Re: Can't get async. mail notification (biff) to work in 4.2a...
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul31.173727.7020@mtholyoke.edu>
  6. Sender: news@mtholyoke.edu (USENET News System)
  7. Organization: Mount Holyoke College
  8. X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
  9. References: <1992Jul30.144307.29127@fs7.ece.cmu.edu>
  10. Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 17:37:27 GMT
  11. Lines: 14
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  14. awk@flag.ece.cmu.edu (Tony Knaus) writes:
  15. > 
  16. > That occasionally happens on our site too. When it does I make
  17. > sure there are no comsat daemons running and then restart inetd.
  18. > -tony
  19.  
  20. The symptom of biff not working here seemed correlated with
  21. talk not working either.  We tried running a separate inetd for
  22. talk.  Neither problem has recurred for quite some time.
  23. Could be superstition....
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  25. Michael Crowley    mcrowley@mtholyoke.edu
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