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Re: Comsat notification when DEFAULT is set

1997-08-21 10:27:06
Philip Guenther <guenther(_at_)gac(_dot_)edu> writes:

If procmail previously notified comsat, before you changed DEFAULT,
then it still is now.  The problem is that the comsat protocol has been
extended since it was originally developed.  The original protocol only
specified a user and an offset inside that user's mailspool.  The
extension was to also specifiy a specific file.  Most OS's ship with
older comsat daemons, pre-protocol extension, which ignore the file
specification and always use the standard mailspool.  The solution is
to replace your comsat daemon with one compiled from newish sources,
say BSD 4.4 or one of the *BSD groups.  (Linux bigots out there should
remember that most network utilities on your systems are probably from
BSD sources.)

Thanks very much.  Installing Michael J. Corrigan's "xcomsat" instead
fixed this problem.  It compiled out of the box under Solaris.
xcomsat is available here: ftp://mendel.ucsd.edu/pub/xcomsat.tar.gz

   Jason R. Mastaler                      jason(_at_)mastaler(_dot_)com


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