From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 18 07:26:56 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 8003C16A4CE for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 07:26:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [66.11.174.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5349B43D1F for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 07:26:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from xeon (xeon.unixathome.org [192.168.0.18]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DCB23D3D; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 10:26:55 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 10:26:55 -0500 (EST) From: Dan Langille X-X-Sender: dan@xeon.unixathome.org To: "Jeremy C. Reed" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20040318102551.O69874@xeon.unixathome.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 15:26:56 -0000 On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Dan Langille wrote: > > > I regularly see this message in /var/log/messages in a jail I'm running. > > It appears on no other machine: > > > > warning: biff_notify: Invalid argument > > This looks like a postfix message, but I am not sure why it doesn't say > postfix in the log and why it is in the messages log. > > If this is postfix, then have your postfix/main.cf have "biff = no" to > disable postfix from attempting it. Hmmm, the output from "/usr/local/sbin/postconf | grep biff" indicates that biff is on for all my machines. Why does only this one cause a problem? FWIW, it is also the only jailed Postfix. -- Dan Langille - BSDCan: http://www.bsdcan.org/