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Date:      Mon, 6 Oct 1997 16:39:42 -0600
From:      John-David Childs <jdc@nterprise.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mail.local: sendto biff: Permission denied
Message-ID:  <19971006163942.29562@denver.net>
In-Reply-To: <3437FC27.27017DD1@home.com>; from Marty Gordon on Sun, Oct 05, 1997 at 01:44:23PM -0700
References:  <3437FC27.27017DD1@home.com>

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On Sunday October  5, 1997, Marty Gordon <mlghome@home.com>
 had this to say about "mail.local: sendto biff: Permission denied":

> I'm running a FreeBSD 2.2-stable system that was CVSUPed and
> rebuilt as of: "FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE #0: Tue Sep  2 13:48:15
> PDT 1997"
> 
> After adding some additional users to the system with
> 'adduser', I get the following message, which I assume gets
> issued for each piece of mail coming in:
> 
> Oct  5 12:55:11 CX63802-A mail.local: sendto biff:
> Permission denied
> 

Check /etc/inetd.conf to make sure that the comsat service is running.

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