warning: biff_notify: Invalid argument

[Matthew Seaman]

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:
> 
>    warning: biff_notify: Invalid argument
> 
> It is annoying more than anything.  I'd like to get rid of it, but I can't
> see how.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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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