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In article <1990Jul29.172530.3504@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> jxf@orion.cis.ksu.edu (Jerry Frain) writes:

>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.

Me too!  Only add a 11/780 running Ultrix 3.1 to the list.

>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.

I have exactly the same problem.

If finger -face bfox@aurel.cns.caltech.edu didn't work just fine, thank
you very much, I would think that trying to get the code to work was
just a very compilcated collection of procedures designed to waste my
time.

If I try finger, I get a message that the hostdata file has not
changed, and that no one is logged in on the client machines.  A 
finger .clients from a client or the server correctly reports the
client list.  Also, finger .faces shows the names of the files entered
in the face directory on the server.

To only confuse matters even more, finger .local works and is definatly
not the output of /usr/ucb/finger.

>Jerry Frain -- Perpetual Student		Kansas State University
>                                 	Department of Computing & Info Sciences
>Internet : jxf@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu                Manhattan, Kansas
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