On Sat, 06 Nov 1999, Steve Youngs wrote:
>* Kurt Kehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> I get the message "New mail for me@machine has arrived:" plus a beep for
>> each message being retrieved. I'd like to disable this feature but am not
>
>echo "biff n" >> ~/.profile RET [1]
>source ~/.profile RET [2]
>
>Explanation.
>
>Slackware uses a program called "biff" to do the mail notification
>thingie. It's loaded as "biff y" from /etc/profile (one of the
>system-wide configuration files). To turn it off you just issue the
>command "biff n".
>
The total explantion is the the program 'comsat' which is run via
/etc/inetd.conf which is the total cause, Steve's solution is of
course a good one, to stop the problem in one clap, read the top
of /etc/inetd.conf about how to kill and restart 'inetd' after
changing it and commenting out;
comsat dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.comsat
>
>
>Footnotes:
>[1] Adds the line "biff n" to the end of ~/.profile, creating the
> file if it doesn't exist. ~/.profile is a user configuration
> file.
>
>[2] Re-reads the contents of ~/.profile issuing any commands
> contained in it.
>
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