BIFF(1) - General Commands Manual # BIFF(1) - General Commands Manual
NAME # biff - be notified if mail arrives and who it is from
SYNOPSIS # biff [n | y]
DESCRIPTION # biff informs the system whether you want to be notified when mail arrives during the current terminal session.
The options are as follows:
n
Disables notification.
y
Enables notification.
When mail notification is enabled, the header and first few lines of the message will be printed on your screen whenever mail arrives.
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COMSAT(8) - System Manager’s Manual # COMSAT(8) - System Manager’s Manual
NAME # comsat - biff server
SYNOPSIS # comsat
DESCRIPTION # comsat is the server process which receives reports of incoming mail and notifies users if they have requested this service. comsat receives messages on a datagram port associated with the “biff” service specification (see services(5) and inetd(8)). The one line messages are 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.
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INETD(8) - System Manager’s Manual # INETD(8) - System Manager’s Manual
NAME # inetd, inetd.conf - internet super-server
SYNOPSIS # inetd [-d] [-RÂ rate] [configuration_file]
DESCRIPTION # inetd should be run at boot time by /etc/rc (see rc(8)). It then listens for connections on certain internet sockets. When a connection is found on one of its sockets, it decides what service the socket corresponds to, and invokes a program to service the request.
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MAIL.LOCAL(8) - System Manager’s Manual # MAIL.LOCAL(8) - System Manager’s Manual
NAME # mail.local - store mail in a mailbox
SYNOPSIS # mail.local [-Ll] [-f from] user …
DESCRIPTION # mail.local reads the standard input up to an end-of-file and appends it to each user’s mail file. The user must be a valid user name.
The options are as follows:
-f from
Specify the sender’s name.
-L
Don’t create a username.
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