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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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neal@ctd.COMsat.COM (Neal Becker) writes:

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

There a bug a in lib/os.c when it does not find a "console" location
in the file TTYLOC and try to use a hostname.

Here is a diff of my changes (the line numbers may not match exactly
because I had other changes for aix in that file):

Minh Tran-Le.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
*** os.c-	Thu Oct  1 11:56:57 1992
--- os.c	Tue Oct 13 10:42:00 1992
***************
*** 604,610 ****
        /* If console user, and there is no entry in the list for
  	 `console', then try the local host. */
  
!       if (!(hostname = xgethostname ()))
  	if (result = lookup_tty (hostname))
  	  return (result);
  #endif
--- 609,615 ----
        /* If console user, and there is no entry in the list for
  	 `console', then try the local host. */
  
!       if (hostname = xgethostname ())
  	if (result = lookup_tty (hostname))
  	  return (result);
  #endif

neal@ctd.COMsat.COM (Neal Becker) writes:

>Thanks for finger-1.36!  Installation was a lot easier than 1.35.  One
>minor problem:

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

Oops, I posted a fix for the wrong problem the last time.  The problem
is really in the `configure' script:

1) to check if the utmp.h defines a structure that contains ut_host
   you need first to include <sys/types.h> otherwise just including
   <utmp.h> on the hpux will fail because there is no typedef for
   pid_t.

2) to check if a machine has a /dev/console, you need to use test -c
   instead of test -f 

Here is a diff of my changes to the configure script:

Minh Tran-Le
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
--- configure-	Wed Oct 14 10:22:56 1992
+++ configure	Wed Oct 14 10:21:12 1992
@@ -491,5 +491,6 @@
 
 		echo checking for ut_host in struct utmp
-echo "#include <utmp.h>
+echo "#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <utmp.h>
 main() { exit(0); } t() { struct utmp ut; ut.ut_host; }" > conftest.c
 if eval $compile; then
@@ -1024,5 +1025,5 @@
 		
 		echo checking for /dev/console
-		if test -f /dev/console; then DEFS="$DEFS -DHAVE_DEV_CONSOLE=1" ; fi
+		if test -c /dev/console; then DEFS="$DEFS -DHAVE_DEV_CONSOLE=1" ; fi
 		
 
@@ -1029,5 +1030,5 @@
 		
 		echo checking for /dev/kbd
-		if test -f /dev/kbd ; then DEFS="$DEFS -DHAVE_DEV_KBD=1" ; fi
+		if test -c /dev/kbd ; then DEFS="$DEFS -DHAVE_DEV_KBD=1" ; fi
 		
 
@@ -1034,5 +1035,5 @@
 		
 		echo checking for /dev/keyboard
-		if test -f /dev/keyboard ; then DEFS="$DEFS -DHAVE_DEV_KEYBOARD=1" ; fi
+		if test -c /dev/keyboard ; then DEFS="$DEFS -DHAVE_DEV_KEYBOARD=1" ; fi
 		
 
@@ -1039,5 +1040,5 @@
 		
 		echo checking for /dev/mouse
-		if test -f /dev/mouse ; then DEFS="$DEFS -DHAVE_DEV_MOUSE=1" ; fi
+		if test -c /dev/mouse ; then DEFS="$DEFS -DHAVE_DEV_MOUSE=1" ; fi
 		
 
@@ -1044,5 +1045,5 @@
 		
 		echo checking for /dev/smf
-		if test -f /dev/smf ; then DEFS="$DEFS -DHAVE_DEV_SMF=1" ; fi
+		if test -c /dev/smf ; then DEFS="$DEFS -DHAVE_DEV_SMF=1" ; fi