* Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 03:14:22PM -0200, Cleber S. Mori wrote: > > Hi all, again. > > > > Thank you, my friends, I found the problem. > > > > As imagined, some thing was wrong. > > > > Cliff Sarginson sent a mail saying that comsat could be the problem. > > Exactly, in my inetd.conf, there WAS comsat enabled. > > > > When I first posted the message like a month a go, 3 or 4 fellows > > asked me for the results, when I find. Here it is. > > > > In my slack 8.0 Linux, comsat was enabled ny default. So... > > > To expand a little on this. > > For some bizarre reason Slackware is distributed with > > biff y > > In it's /etc/profile. > > The appalling biff program requires "comsat" to do it's job, so that > is why I guess Slackware has it enabled. > > "biff" (named after the author's dog btw) screws the mail access time.
I wonder if that was an influence on using 'mutt' instead of calling it something like 'mule'. But then we would have to figure out which email clients were the horse and donkey. :) > > Further if "biff y" is set then it provokes mysterious error messages > when you use "su", this is because ownerships/permissions on tty's are > established when you login and "su - user" cannot affect this. > > -- Regards Cliff > Curt -- Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.
