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+.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991 The Regents of the University of California.
+.\" All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+.\" are met:
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+.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
+.\"
+.\" from: @(#)comsat.8 6.5 (Berkeley) 3/16/91
+.\" $Id: comsat.8,v 1.12 2000/04/13 01:55:56 dholland Exp $
+.\"
+.Dd July 31, 1999"
+.Dt COMSAT 8
+.Os "Linux NetKit (0.17-pre-20000412)"
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm comsat
+.Nd biff server
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Nm comsat
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Nm Comsat
+is the server process which receives reports of incoming mail
+and notifies users if they have requested this service.
+.Nm Comsat
+receives messages on a datagram port associated with the
+.Dq biff
+service
+specification (see
+.Xr services 5
+and
+.Xr inetd 8 ) .
+The one line messages are of the form:
+.Pp
+.Dl user@mailbox-offset:/path/to/mailbox
+.Pp
+If the
+.Em user
+specified is logged in to the system and the associated terminal has
+the owner execute bit turned on (by a
+.Dq Li biff y ) ,
+the
+.Em 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. Lines which appear to be part of
+the message header other than the
+.Dq From
+or
+.Dq Subject
+lines are not included in the output.
+.Sh FILES
+.Bl -tag -width /var/run/utmp -compact
+.It Pa /var/run/utmp
+to find out who's logged on and on what terminals
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr biff 1 ,
+.Xr inetd 8
+.Sh BUGS
+The message header filtering is prone to error.
+The density of the information presented is near the theoretical minimum.
+.Pp
+Users should be notified of mail which arrives on other
+machines than the one to which they are currently logged in.
+.Pp
+The notification should appear in a separate window so it
+does not mess up the screen.
+.Pp
+Please report bugs to netbug@ftp.uk.linux.org and include diffs/patches,
+compiler error logs or as complete a bug report as you are able.
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm
+daemon appeared in
+.Bx 4.2 .