From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 18 06:25:57 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3CE816A4CE for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 06:25:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3CA843D1D for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 06:25:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [IPv6:::1]) i2IEPonE058850 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 18 Mar 2004 14:25:50 GMT (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)id i2IEPoH2058849; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 14:25:50 GMT (envelope-from matthew) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 14:25:49 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman To: Dan Langille Message-ID: <20040318142549.GA58673@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Dan Langille , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org References: <20040318073514.A69874@xeon.unixathome.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040318073514.A69874@xeon.unixathome.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version devel-20040316, clamav-milter version 0.67l cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: warning: biff_notify: Invalid argument X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 14:25:58 -0000 --lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --=20 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 --lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAWbFtdtESqEQa7a0RAscaAKCTVZ4N0RFcvS/gkQAwIWS8B0dh2gCfW5go Yp7nQp+HkUuH5M+PilKoxQM= =/AkE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ--