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Date:      Mon, 27 Nov 2000 19:43:37 +0100
From:      Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>
To:        Andrea Venturoli <ml.ventu@flashnet.it>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: UDP Connections to port 512
Message-ID:  <20001127194337.D5103@buffy.local>
In-Reply-To: <200011271024.eARAObe11496@relay2.flashnet.it>; from ml.ventu@flashnet.it on Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 11:24:23AM -0500
References:  <200011271024.eARAObe11496@relay2.flashnet.it>

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On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 11:24:23AM -0500, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> ** Reply to note from Ryan Breding <rbreding@drizzle.theriver.nu> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 22:44:59   
> -0600 (CST) 
>  
>  
> > I have checked on the UDP connections to port 512 and it seems that it is  
> > "biff".  Is there a setting to turn biff off or am I on the wrong trail  
> > ?  I dont see biff running in the process list. 
>  
> >From "man mail.local": 
>  
>  If  the  ``biff'' service is returned by getservbyname(3),         
>  the biff server is notified of delivered mail.                     
>                                                                     
>  
> So, I just got rid of this by commenting biff in /etc/services. 
>  
>  Bye 
> 	av. 
> 
Mmmm.
Generally speaking you shouldnt really fiddle in /etc/services.
Think of it as a sort of dictionary for applications.
The one to stop biff, as I stated before, is to disable comsat
in inetd.conf.

Cliff
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