114 lines
3.4 KiB
Groff
114 lines
3.4 KiB
Groff
.\" $NetBSD: comsat.8,v 1.14 2010/05/29 23:08:06 dholland Exp $
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.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\" from: @(#)comsat.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
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.\"
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.Dd May 29, 2010
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.Dt COMSAT 8
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm comsat
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.Nd biff server
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Op Fl l
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Nm
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is the server process which receives reports of incoming mail
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and notifies users if they have requested this service.
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.Nm
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receives messages on a datagram port associated with the
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.Dq biff
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service
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specification (see
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.Xr services 5
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and
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.Xr inetd 8 ) .
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The one line messages are of the form:
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.Pp
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.Dl user@mailbox-offset
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.Pp
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If the
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.Em user
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specified is logged in to the system and the associated terminal has
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the owner execute bit turned on (by a
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.Dq Li biff y ) ,
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the
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.Em offset
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is used as a seek offset into the appropriate mailbox file and
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the first 7 lines or 560 characters of the message are printed
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on the user's terminal.
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Lines which appear to be part of the message header other than the
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.Dq From
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or
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.Dq Subject
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lines are not included in the displayed message.
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.Sh OPTIONS
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The
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.Nm
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program supports this option:
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.Bl -tag -width 12345
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.It Fl l
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The
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.Fl l
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option turns on
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.Xr syslogd 8
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log messages.
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.El
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.Sh FILES
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To find out who's logged on and on what terminals
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.Nm
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consults:
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.Pp
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.Bl -tag -width /var/run/utmpx -compact
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.It Pa /var/run/utmp
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.It Pa /var/run/utmpx
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr biff 1 ,
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.Xr inetd 8 ,
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.Xr syslogd 8
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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command appeared in
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.Bx 4.2 .
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.Sh BUGS
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The message header filtering is prone to error.
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The density of the information presented is near the theoretical minimum.
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.Pp
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Users should be notified of mail which arrives on other
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machines than the one to which they are currently logged in.
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.Pp
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The notification should appear in a separate window so it
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does not mess up the screen.
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.Pp
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.Nm
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runs as root so that it can open the users maildrop.
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