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- Subject: Are BIFF and NIS compatible?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.205120.926@massey.ac.nz>
- From: V.Spagnolo@massey.ac.nz (Victoria Spagnolo)
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 20:51:20 GMT
- Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- hello
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- thanks to all who answered my previous query about biff not working.
- unfortunately, all the things suggested do not make biff work. but i did
- learn that comsat is the biff server and that it is setup in the /etc/services
- file. one of the first lines of services is
- "this file is never consulted when the NIS are running"
- and, yes, i am running NIS. is biff a lost cause when NIS are running?
- please clarify. thanks,
-
- vicki
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- Victoria Spagnolo - Programmer/Analyst
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