SUMMARY about comsat

From: Lucio Chiappetti <lucio_at_ifctr.mi.cnr.it>
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 15:51:51 +0100 (MET)

On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:

> When running "top" recently I found a process "comsat" running on my Alpha.
> I was quite surprised since I knew what comsat is, and do NOT use biff.
> I use pine, but I've never noticed it invoked comsat.

  Consensus was that "comsat _always_ start when you get local delivery of
  mail", irrespective of biff setting and should not stay there for long.
  So no forged daemon there, all is normal.

Thanks to: Jerome M Berkman, Jim Belonis, Simon Tardell
Received on Fri Nov 28 1997 - 16:19:28 NZDT

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