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Since there does not seem to be a group gnu.finger.bug I submit
my problem here. I have installed GNU finger on my systems following
all the instructions (I know, everybody says that). The compilation
went smoothly (with gcc-1.39.0), but then I ended up with my
fingerd definitely not performing. Perhaps the problem is in
configuration. I would like my machine (Sequent S27, DYNIX 3.0.17.9)
to be both the server and the client for its own server since
this is a standalone machine. I have all the bits and pieces in
place now; I've done "make client", and then "make server". I've
put appropriate entries in inetd.conf and services and restarted
the daemons. Then I started fingerd. Fingerd created two files in
its "fingerdir": userdata and hostdata, both empty, and stopped there. 
I had the name of my machine (vulcan) declared in serverhost in
this directory and also in file "clients" in the same directory.
"ttylocs" was created too. Querying fingerd with "finger name" shows 
that the connection is made, but nothing is returned, because the data 
bases (i.e., userdata and hostdata) are empty. I could query other
machines with my GNU finger. That worked OK. I could query my
machine from other machines, but the result was the same as
internal queries: the connection was made but nothing was
returned. fingerd produced no error messages, nothing has been
logged on messages or console either. Querying "finger .all"
would produce "nobody logged on message" or something like that,
of course, because the data bases were empty. 

I suspect that the problem may be in the client and server functions
colliding somehow and both client and the server mutually erasing
their data bases. But then how is GNU finger server to serve itself?

If you have GNU finger working in a similar context, I'd be grateful
for your hints and details of your configuration. 
-- 
   Gustav Meglicki, gustav@arp.anu.edu.au,
   Automated Reasoning Project, RSSS, and Plasma Theory Group, RSPhysS,
   The Australian National University, G.P.O. Box 4, Canberra, A.C.T., 2601, 
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