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Date:      Fri, 5 Sep 1997 23:09:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Marty Gordon <mlghome@home.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: mail.local: sendto biff: permission denied
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970905230822.7395l-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970905074117.833A-100000@cx63802-a.dt1.sdca.home.com>

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On Fri, 5 Sep 1997, Marty Gordon wrote:

> I'm starting to get these messages from mail.local for a new user that I
> recently setup. I'm not sure why mail.local is trying to 'biff'.

Biff is a system utility that reports when new mail has arrived.  It
sounds like you're running ipfw and have the biff port blocked or
something.

Biff was supposedly dead with 4.4BSD, but ????

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail    | Death to Cyberpromo




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