🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <pat.720066258@bcserv> pat@bcserv.wustl.edu (Niemeyer (Pat)) writes:
>yongtao@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Yongtao Chen) writes:
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>>Hi, Unix programmers,
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>>I want to write a program to detect whether anybody is "finger"ing me.
>>But I have no idea about how to do that.   Do you think you can give
>>me some ideas or help?    Many thanks in advance.
>
>>Yours,
>
>You could do something similar to what I did to give myself a 
>rotating plan file...
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>Make your .plan a named pipe.
>You can have your code block on writing to it until someone fingers you.
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>This is a hell of a lot easier than getting your sysadmin to modify your
>finger daemon for you.
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>
>Pat (Pat@bcserv.wustl.edu)
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>Pat

Any hints on how to do this ????
ie. how to make a .plan a named pipe etc.

thanks.

Ali


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