Re: finger-1.36 minor bug on hpux

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From: Gregory Neil Shapiro
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 04:08

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>>>>> On 13 Oct 92 14:33:19 GMT, neal@ctd.COMsat.COM (Neal Becker) said:

neal> On hpux 8.07 finger shows entries for terminal "co" (console, I
neal> guess) which all show idle time of 24 years!  Anyone know why?

I had this problem on a number of tty's using Ultrix (not just console
ones).  It turned out to be in.cfingerd does the conversion htonl
before sending it but fingerd doesn't ntohl the value read in.  Adding
this in fixed the problem.

Greg
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 Gregory Neil Shapiro                                    gshapiro@wpi.wpi.edu
            Academic Systems Integrator, College Computer Center
                       Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Subject: Re: finger-1.36 minor bug on hpux
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