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Article #6747Re: Sun 4.1.1 'biff y' problem :-(
From: Christos S. Zoulas
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 1991 05:49
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 1991 05:49
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In article <1450@brchh104.bnr.ca> shahryar@eris.berkeley.edu (Persian Nightmare) writes:
>I have a problem with the 'biff y' command on our Sun 4.1.1 system. Ever
>since we have switched to Sun 4.1 OS, I have never been able to get the
>'biff y' command to work. The weird thing is that only a few users does
>this command work for, and for some it doesn't {including our Sys Admin}.
You should get the sources for in.comsat from a 4.3 BSD system, compile
and install it. Sun broke in.comsat in 4.1 for users with 8 character long
usernames. My guess is that the code does an strcpy, instead of an
strncpy. You can look for the core file of in.comsat in
/usr/spool/mqueue...
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!brtph3!brchh104!brchs1!bnr.ca!rice.edu!sun-spots-request From: dartvax!batcomputer!christos@uunet.uu.net (Christos S. Zoulas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: Sun 4.1.1 'biff y' problem :-( Keywords: SunOS Message-ID: <1499@brchh104.bnr.ca> Date: 26 Jan 91 05:49:26 GMT Sender: news@brchh104.bnr.ca Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 15 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Refs: Original: v10n31 X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 31, message 4 X-Note: Submissions: sun-spots@rice.edu, Admin: sun-spots-request@rice.edu