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Date:      Thu, 06 Jan 2000 06:44:07 -0600
From:      Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Strange UDP messages 
Message-ID:  <20000106124407.DAE72193@woodstock.monkey.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Jan 2000 00:30:02 EST." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001060029060.17839-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> 

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001060029060.17839-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>, Ada
m wrote:
} >> I get these too and since I have comsat disabled I'd like to stop whatever
} >> it is from trying to notifying comsat :) Pretty annoying.. 
} >
} >It's almost certainly going to be procmail..  by default, the sources
} >(including from the port) will build with the code that tries to talk
} >to comsat on local mail delivery.
} >
} >Rebuilding with -DNO_COMSAT added to the CFLAGS fixes that
} >(sadly, there doesn't appear to be a run-time flag to set this,
} > perhaps there needs to be).

Sure there is.  From procmailrc(1):

       COMSAT      Comsat(8)/biff(1)   notification   is   on  by
                   default, it can be turned off by setting  this
                   variable to `no'.  Alternatively the biff-ser-
                   vice can be customised by setting it to either
                   `service@',   `@hostname',  or  `service@host-
                   name'.  When  not  specified  it  defaults  to
                   biff@localhost.

-- 
   Jon Hamilton  
   hamilton@pobox.com



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