COMSAT(8,C)                 AIX Commands Reference                  COMSAT(8,C)



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comsat



PURPOSE

Receives reports of incoming mail.

SYNTAX


/etc/comsat ---|


DESCRIPTION

The comsat command 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.
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.  If you have
selected a language (through the LANG environment variable) that supports
multibyte characters, the 560-character limit can be reduced by as much as 50%,
depending on the character code set being used.  Lines which appear to be part
of the message header other than the From, To, Date, or Subject lines are not
included in the displayed message.

Note:  The comsat command works only when TCP/IP is installed.

FILES

/etc/utmp   To find out who's logged on and on what terminals.

RELATED INFORMATION

See the following command:  "biff."












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