Why 'finger' returns old data?

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From: joechen
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 00:00

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My site uses GNU finger daemon 1.37, it worked fine for a long time.
But recently when users finger my site, the message shows
"/usr/local/etc/fingerdir/hostdata: file has not changed in X days, ..."
and the data shown is old, not updated for several days.

Can any one tell me why it happens? Is there any way to solve the 
problem? Thank you very much!


E-mail: joechen@cc.ntu.edu.tw

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From: joechen@cc.ntu.edu.tw (joechen)
Subject: Why 'finger' returns old data?
Date: 1996/09/15
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