From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 27 15:48:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (af.speednet.com.au [202.135.188.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1F6F37B4C5 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 15:48:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (backup.af.speednet.com.au [172.22.2.4]) by backup.af.speednet.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eARNmCF17366; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 10:48:13 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 10:48:12 +1100 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-Sender: andyf@backup.af.speednet.com.au To: "Gerald T. Freymann" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: biff and comsat In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Look in /etc/inetd.conf for the comment about comsat (line 15). On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Gerald T. Freymann wrote: > On our FreeBSD 2.2.6 box, when new messages came in and I was logged onto > the server, I'd see who it was from and about the first two lines pop up on > my console. > > Since I put in the new server using FreeBSD 4.1.1-stable, I only see this: > > marlo: {101} % > New mail for freymann@marlo.eagle.ca has arrived: > ---- > > I've read the man pages on biff and comsat but I don't see anything that > says how many lines of the incoming message will be displayed or how to > change it. Did I overlook the info I seek? > > I just issue a "biff n" command right now since the message alert is kinda > useless as it. > > -Gerry > -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message