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Article #3366Re: HELP! Biff (and talk) problems...
From: Rahul Dhesi
Date: Sat, 06 May 1989 20:40
Date: Sat, 06 May 1989 20:40
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In article <7029@saturn.ucsc.edu> humtech@ucschu.ucsc.edu (Mark Frost) writes:
>Ever since we upgraded
>our ISI V16 to 4.3 BSD we have never received on-line notification of
>new mail...
I discovered a long time ago that if I enabled "pseudo-device inet" in
our 4.3BSD configuration file, "talk" worked but "biff" didn't. If I
didn't enable that device, "biff" worked but "talk" didn't. Since the
4.3BSD documentation is less than spectacular, I simply tossed a coin,
decided "talk" was more useful than "biff", allowed that pseudo-device
to stay in, and resigned myself to a biff-less existence.
You might want to set csh's "mail" variable like this:
set mail=(30 /usr/spool/mail/$USER)
which will cause csh to check for mail every 30 seconds.
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Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!bsu-cs!dhesi From: dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: HELP! Biff (and talk) problems... Message-ID: <7127@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> Date: 6 May 89 20:40:47 GMT References: <7029@saturn.ucsc.edu> Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi) Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana Lines: 20