According to Ted Gervais: While burning my CPU.
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Hi Ted, long time no hear...
> I wonder if anyone knows how to get rid of a 'bleed-through' action that
> is happening with me. It occurs on my 'user' screen when I log in, and
> comes from new mail appearing on my system. I can be in 'PINE' reading my
> mail and if new mail arrives, it pops through on my screen. To be able to
> continue reading my mail I have to do a ctrl L to clear the screen.
>
> I run sendmail which manages my mail, and while it does a good job I am
> running if it might be the culprit here? However, I don't know why.
Take a look at your enviroment files and set "biff" to n
biff n
You can also undefine 'comsat' in /etc/inetd.conf
send a SIGHUP to inetd after the change.
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> Any thoughts would be appreciated.
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> Ted Gervais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 44.135.34.254 gw.ve1drg.ampr.org
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Regards Richard.
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