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Pakket: biff (1:0.17.pre20000412-5)

a mail notification tool

biff is a small program that prints a message to your terminal when new email arrives. Actually, the message is printed by the comsat daemon, and biff just enables/disables the u+x permission flag for the terminal, which comsat uses to determine whether or not to write to your terminal.

biff is mainly of historic interest, since there are much better alternatives (such as xlbiff and gbuffy) that are network-aware and do not require a daemon. Although there are no known security problems, running additional services is often considered risky.

By default, the biff service is disabled. To use biff email notification, you must enable this service by running 'update-inetd --enable biff' after the package is installed. You may also need to modify the configuration of your mail transport agent to enable comsat notification.

Tags: User Interface: Command Line, Achtergronddienst (daemon), Electronic Mail: Notification, Networking: Client, Server, Role: Program, Works with: Email

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  • dep: libc0.1 (>= 2.6-1) [kfreebsd-i386]
    GNU C Bibliotheek: Gedeelde bibliotheken
    Ook een virtueel pakket geboden door: libc0.1-udeb
    dep: libc0.1 (>= 2.6.1-1) [kfreebsd-amd64]
  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6) [i386]
    GNU C Bibliotheek: Gedeelde bibliotheken
    Ook een virtueel pakket geboden door: libc6-udeb
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.5-5) [m68k]
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.6-1) [arm]
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.6.1-1) [niet alpha, arm, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, m68k]
  • dep: libc6.1 (>= 2.6-1) [ia64]
    GNU C Bibliotheek: Gedeelde bibliotheken
    Ook een virtueel pakket geboden door: libc6.1-udeb
    dep: libc6.1 (>= 2.6.1-1) [alpha]
  • dep: netbase
    Basaal TCP/IP netwerk systeem

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Platform Pakketgrootte Geïnstalleerde grootte Bestanden
alpha 14,3 kB104 kB [overzicht]
amd64 14,0 kB100 kB [overzicht]
arm 13,5 kB96 kB [overzicht]
armel 13,3 kB92 kB [overzicht]
hppa 14,4 kB100 kB [overzicht]
i386 13,6 kB96 kB [overzicht]
ia64 15,6 kB104 kB [overzicht]
kfreebsd-amd64 (unofficial port) 14,0 kB58 kB [overzicht]
kfreebsd-i386 (unofficial port) 13,5 kB52 kB [overzicht]
m68k 13,4 kB96 kB [overzicht]
mips 13,9 kB100 kB [overzicht]
mipsel 13,9 kB100 kB [overzicht]
powerpc 14,4 kB100 kB [overzicht]
s390 14,3 kB100 kB [overzicht]
sparc 14,0 kB100 kB [overzicht]