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Date:      Tue, 16 Apr 1996 22:15:34 -0400
From:      "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
To:        Eric Allman <eric@sendmail.org>
Cc:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Subject:   Re: The Biff service 
Message-ID:  <199604170215.WAA12045@whizzo.transsys.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Apr 1996 08:48:59 PDT." <199604161549.IAA26112@knecht.Oxford.Reference.COM> 
References:  <199604161549.IAA26112@knecht.Oxford.Reference.COM> 

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> An alternative would be to add a "discard" entry to inetd.conf for
> this service.  This would require no code changes and would have
> the same effect.

Or for no code changes at all, have 'biff' be an alias for the

	discard		9/udp	sink null

line in /etc/services... Assuming that mail.local uses getservbyname()
this ought to be all that's required.

louie




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