According to Michael B. Trausch: While burning my CPU.
>
> How do I stop "sendmail" from broadcasting a message everytime a new mail
> is sent to a user account? I don't mind the beep... but the broadcast to
> the terminal just kills everything... and I lose whatever it is on the
> screen until I have the oppurtunity to refresh it somehow.
Its possably not sendmail thats doing that, possably procmail or whatever
you have defined in /etc/sendmail.cf, they mostly all use the comsat program
which in turn uses biff to annoy you by printing garbage on your screen.
Either comment out the line which calls comsat in /etc/inetd.conf or add
"biff -n" to you $USER enviroment, for example in /home/$USER/.profile
>
> - Mike T.
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> Michael B. Trausch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Running Slackware 3.5 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Kernel 2.0.34 Slackware Distribution: www.cdrom.com
> Running Pine 4.05, Lynx 2.81, and learning about Linux along the way!
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>
> Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you
> awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
> -- C.B. Luce
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Regards Richard.
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