Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 14:25:49 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: warning: biff_notify: Invalid argument Message-ID: <20040318142549.GA58673@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040318073514.A69874@xeon.unixathome.org> References: <20040318073514.A69874@xeon.unixathome.org>
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On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 07:42:46AM -0500, Dan Langille wrote:
> I regularly see this message in /var/log/messages in a jail I'm running.
> It appears on no other machine:
>=20
> warning: biff_notify: Invalid argument
>=20
> It is annoying more than anything. I'd like to get rid of it, but I can't
> see how.
>=20
> After reading man biff, I checked all the .login and .profile files I
> could find (there are only three users in the jail). I also grepped
> entire home directories, but found nothing calling biff.
>=20
> Any ideas?
Do you have comsat(8) enabled in /etc/inetd.conf ? Got anything that
likes to connect to port 512/udp, such as mail.local(8), procmail(1)
or other Mail Delivery Agents?
Cheers,
Matthew
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Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks
Savill Way
PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow
Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK
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