How to Install and Uninstall biff Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "biff" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install biff on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                biff
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "biff" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall biff on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                biff
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the biff package on Kali Linux

Package: biff
Version: 1:0.17.pre20000412-5.1
Installed-Size: 54
Maintainer: Dave Holland
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), netbase
Size: 13736
SHA256: eb1de08362a1bca69cf48ae55c761e7b006e805909ac457d9e896f9eed6a92f9
SHA1: eb4469bf3efba2180fb13a1cf2f25e36f3448609
MD5sum: 3a83238cf039caf8fde60c795f249e0c
Description: 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.
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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.
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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.
Description-md5:
Tag: interface::commandline, interface::daemon, mail::notification,
network::client, network::server, role::program, works-with::mail
Section: mail
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/b/biff/biff_0.17.pre20000412-5.1_amd64.deb