From owner-freebsd-current Sun May 12 03:20:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA12513 for current-outgoing; Sun, 12 May 1996 03:20:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA12508 for ; Sun, 12 May 1996 03:20:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id MAA29354 for ; Sun, 12 May 1996 12:20:39 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id MAA22400 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 12 May 1996 12:20:39 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id MAA06630 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 12 May 1996 12:09:09 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199605121009.MAA06630@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: The Biff service To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 12:09:08 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from invalid opcode at "May 11, 96 09:59:19 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL15 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As invalid opcode wrote: > > > Would people kill me for introducing a `-b' option to mail.local(8) to > > > stop it from attempting to use the ``biff'' service? > Why not just use "biff n" ? Since comsat is disabled at all, and i've got tired of the logged failed connection attempts. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)