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From: cgd@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [NETBSD] Biff Doesn't Work
Date: 9 Jun 93 19:46:37
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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Message-ID: <CGD.93Jun9194637@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
References: <1993Jun9.100225.2077@yvax.byu.edu> <1993Jun9.183418.24923@coe.montana.edu>
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In-reply-to: nate@cs.montana.edu's message of Wed, 9 Jun 1993 18:34:18 GMT
In article <1993Jun9.183418.24923@coe.montana.edu> nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:
>For some strange reason (??), the NetBSD gang commented out the biff line
>in /etc/services. Why????
incorrect; it's not commented out in /etc/services.
also, the "comsat" line in /etc/inetd.conf was not commented out.
it certainly works here on sun-lamp, and we've touched *nothing*
relating to biff/comsat/etc. since 0.8...
chris
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Chris G. Demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu
"386bsd as depth first search: whenever you go to fix something you
find that 3 more things are actually broken." -- Adam Glass