biff and comsat don't work

I'm having a tough time getting biff to work properly. I have the following line in my /etc/services: biff512/udp comsat and the following section in my /etc/xinetd.conf: service comsat { socket_type = dgram protocol= udp wait

Re: biff and comsat don't work

12:36:26 -0800 (PST) Subject: biff and comsat don't work I'm having a tough time getting biff to work properly. I have the following line in my /etc/services: biff512/udp comsat and the following section in my /etc/xinetd.conf: service comsat { socket_type

Re: biff and comsat don't work

I suspect the reason for this is that you have a daemon which listens to netbios-ns port already running when you (re)start your (x)inetd. The culprit in question is probably nmbd which is part of samba distribution. Does the problem go away if you do these things? 1. first shut down your