From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 16 19:17:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA26183 for current-outgoing; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 19:17:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA26168 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 19:17:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (whizzo.TransSys.COM [144.202.42.10]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id TAA00280 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 19:17:29 -0700 Received: from localhost.transsys.com (localhost.transsys.com [127.0.0.1]) by whizzo.transsys.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA12045; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 22:15:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199604170215.WAA12045@whizzo.transsys.com> X-Authentication-Warning: whizzo.transsys.com: Host localhost.transsys.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Eric Allman cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) From: "Louis A. Mamakos" Subject: Re: The Biff service References: <199604161549.IAA26112@knecht.Oxford.Reference.COM> In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 16 Apr 1996 08:48:59 PDT." <199604161549.IAA26112@knecht.Oxford.Reference.COM> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 22:15:34 -0400 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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