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Article #1906

Re: working fingerd on NeXT Cube

#1906
From: Paul S. Sears
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 23:29
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In article <HROSE.92Nov20174155@rocza.eff.org> hrose@eff.org (Helen  
Trillian Rose) writes:
#I've got a NeXT '040 Cube running 2.1 and trying to get the Budne
#fingerd working on it (or *anything* that will return a proper response
#when fingered user@host).
#
#Current output is:
#
# % finger @morrolan
#[morrolan.eff.org]
#Trying 192.88.144.30...
#Login       Name              TTY Idle    When            Office
#ckd      Christopher Davis     p0 1:05 Fri 13:02 
#hrose    Helen Trillian Rose   p1    1 Fri 16:15
#
#% finger hrose@morrolan
#[morrolan.eff.org]
#Trying 192.88.144.30...
#Login       Name              TTY Idle    When            Office
#ckd      Christopher Davis     p0 1:05 Fri 13:02 
#hrose    Helen Trillian Rose   p1    1 Fri 16:15 
#
#No difference in outputs, even though there is a difference in what I
#sent. 

You might try the fingerd on sonata.cc.purdue.edu in the submissions  
directory (I think it is there).

#
#Anyone have any suggestions?

Upgrade to 3.0?  It seems that the fingerd has been fixed in this release:

thanatos> finger @thanatos
[thanatos]
Login       Name              TTY Idle    When            Office
sears    Paul S. Sears         co   9d Fri 10:51 
sears    Paul S. Sears         p1 1:50 Fri 10:52 
sears    Paul S. Sears         p2      Fri 11:40 
sears    Paul S. Sears         p3      Fri 11:51 
thanatos> finger sears@thanatos
[thanatos]
Login name: sears                       In real life: Paul S. Sears
Directory: /Net/flower/Users2/sears     Shell: /bin/csh
On since Nov 20 10:51:11 on console     9 days 0 hours Idle Time
No Plan.

Login name: sears                       In real life: Paul S. Sears
Directory: /Net/flower/Users2/sears     Shell: /bin/csh
On since Nov 20 10:52:04 on ttyp1       1 hour 50 minutes Idle Time
No Plan.

Login name: sears                       In real life: Paul S. Sears
Directory: /Net/flower/Users2/sears     Shell: /bin/csh
On since Nov 20 11:40:28 on ttyp2       26 seconds Idle Time
No Plan.

Login name: sears                       In real life: Paul S. Sears
Directory: /Net/flower/Users2/sears     Shell: /bin/csh
On since Nov 20 11:51:28 on ttyp3   
No Plan.

#
#Thanks,
#
#--Helen
#--
#Helen Trillian Rose             	<hrose@eff.org, hrose@kei.com>

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From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
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Subject: Re: working fingerd on NeXT Cube
Date: 20 Nov 1992 23:29:56 GMT
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