It's now disabled system wide. Your right it is kinda useless. eOn Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 09:20:24AM -0600, Adam Myrow wrote: > Yeah, it's called biff and for some stupid reason, it gets turned on by > default. You can get rid of this annoyance as follows. As root, edit > /etc/profile and fine the following lines. > > if [ -x /usr/bin/biff ]; then > biff y > fi > > Either delete them, or add a number sign in front of each so that they > look like this.\ > > #if [ -x /usr/bin/biff ]; then > # biff y > #fi > > Another way is to put "biff n" as the last line of your .profile or > .bash_profile, but since this is an absolutely useless and annoying > program, I prefer to disable it systemwide. It is the first thing I do > when I install a fresh copy of Slackware. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- -- A message from the system administrator: "I've upped my priority, now up yours!
