Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wang!bu-tyng!oneill
From: oneill@bu-tyng.bu.edu (Brian O'Neill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.encore
Subject: Problems with biff/comsat notifying wrong people
Message-ID: <2069@bu-tyng.bu.edu>
Date: 23 Sep 89 15:54:40 GMT
Reply-To: oneill@bu-tyng.bu.edu (Brian O'Neill)
Organization: Boston University Corporate Education Center, Tyngsboro MA
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Lately I've heard complaints that on occasion people receive notification of
new mail, when if fact the mail is for another person (I don't use biff, so
I haven't had the problem). It seems that after the Multimax has been
running for a long time (> 3-4 weeks), comsat isn't getting the right
information from /etc/utmp. Say, if user "x" is logged on, and user "y" gets
mail, "x" may get the notice. If "y" was logged in at the time, and "x" got
the notice, "y" does not. "y" does not have to be logged in at the time.

Unfortunately, I can't supply much more information, as it's something that
can't be easily recreated. UMAX version is 4.2 R3.3_0

Has anyone experienced similar problems?

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Brian O'Neill - Boston University Corporate Education Center, Tyngsboro, MA
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