Problems installing gnu finger 1.0b on Sparc 1

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From: Jerry Frain
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 1990 17:25

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I am attempting to install gnu-finger 1.0b on a network of Sun workstations.
Currently, I am just trying to install it on two of them (both Sparc 1s
running 4.0.1) until it is working.

It appears to work, except that fingerd is not updating the files

	/usr/local/etc/fingerdir/hostdata
	/usr/local/etc/fingerdir/userdata

In fact, the files never get written to, just created.  Near as I can tell,
when fingerd always received null packets from the clients that it connects
with.

I haven't gone in and done *too* much debugging in the actual code, but I
have gone over the configuration 100 times, file permissions, etc.

So how 'bout it?  Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

  --Jerry

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