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Running GNU Finger 1.37 on a SparcStation

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From: Leo Breebaart
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 16:00
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My setup:

    Sun SparcStation IPC, SunOS 4.1.3
    GNU Finger 1.37
    default build & make (no args to ./configure)
    no problems during compilation or installation

My problem:

As far as I can tell everything works just peachy. Inetd is configured
ok, fingerd polls every 120 seconds, the client works fine. There's
just one thing: "finger @host" doesn't work:

    % finger @draconis
    [draconis.cp.tn.tudelft.nl]
    No one logged in on client machines.
    %

However:

    % finger .local
      User     Real Name         What    Idle  TTY  Host      Console Location
    cpadmin  CP System Administ          0:15   p3 draconis (cygnus:0.0)
    gabri    Gabri van der Maar                 p4 draconis (:0.0)
    gabri    Gabri van der Maar          0:03   p5 draconis (:0.0)
    leo      Leo Breebaart                      p1 draconis (cygnus:0.0)
    % 

If I try to finger a remote host (e.g. gnu.ai.mit.edu), it works ok,
so I guess the problem must be with my finger server somehow, right?

I'm rather new to the business of mucking around with inetd's and services
files, so I suspect I've made some silly mistake. Does anybody out there
have a clue as to what is going on?

-- 
Leo Breebaart (leo @ cp.tn.tudelft.nl)
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Subject: Running GNU Finger 1.37 on a SparcStation
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