IN.COMSAT(8) Maintenance Commands and Procedures IN.COMSAT(8)
NAME
in.comsat, comsat - biff server
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/in.comsatDESCRIPTION
comsat is the server process which listens for reports of incoming
mail and notifies users who have requested to be told when mail
arrives. It is invoked as needed by
inetd(8), and times out if
inactive for a few minutes.
comsat listens on a datagram port associated with the
biff service
specification (see
services(5)) for one line messages of the form
user@mailbox-offset If the
user specified is logged in to the system and the associated
terminal has the owner execute bit turned on (by a
biff y), the
offset is used as a seek offset into the appropriate mailbox file,
and the first 7 lines or 560 characters of the message are printed on
the user's terminal. Lines which appear to be part of the message
header other than the
From,
To,
Date, or
Subject lines are not
printed when displaying the message.
FILES
/var/adm/utmpx user access and administration information
SEE ALSO
svcs(1),
services(5),
attributes(7),
smf(7),
inetadm(8),
inetd(8),
svcadm(8)NOTES
The message header filtering is prone to error.
The
in.comsat service is managed by the service management facility,
smf(7), under the service identifier:
svc:/network/comsat:default
Administrative actions on this service, such as enabling, disabling,
or requesting restart, can be performed using
svcadm(8).
Responsibility for initiating and restarting this service is
delegated to
inetd(8). Use
inetadm(8) to make configuration changes
and to view configuration information for this service. The service's
status can be queried using the
svcs(1) command.
July 27, 2004 IN.COMSAT(8)
