Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 11:24:23 EST From: Andrea Venturoli <ml.ventu@flashnet.it> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: UDP Connections to port 512 Message-ID: <200011271024.eARAObe11496@relay2.flashnet.it>
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** 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.
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