finger-1.36 minor bug on hpxu-id

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2 total messages Started by Neal Becker Tue, 13 Oct 1992 14:33

#904

Author: Neal Becker
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 14:33

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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?

Another minor install problem.  make server or make client insists on
recompiling things.  This can cause nasty root NFS access problems, if
your source directory is NFS mounted, since installation may require
root privlege.  It would be nicer to use a more traditional approach,
so that make would build all sources, and make server would only
install without modifying the source directory.


BTW - everyone knows -lPW causes problems with HPUX (/lib/libPW.a
contains definitions of some stuff you don't want along with alloca).
Some gnu installs suggest extracting alloca and making a
/usr/local/lib/liballoca.a.  I have been using this approach.
Unfortunately, gnu configure doesn't know about this.  I suggest that
configure should look for liballoca.a first, then libPW.a.  The
alternative approach (used by finger-1.36) is:

	ld ... -lPW -lc -lPW

Unfortunately, my experience is that this is not only silly, it also
doesn't always work.  I vote for supporting liballoca instead.

Re: finger-1.36 minor bug on hpxu-id

#929

Author: Robert K Shull
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 19:56

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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?

The client end converts the two times it keeps to network order, but
the server doesn't convert them back.
The following patch to fingerd.c appears to work ok.
	Robert

===================================================================
RCS file: RCS/fingerd.c,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -r1.1 fingerd.c
670a671,672
>         packets[i]->login_time = ntohl (packets[i]->login_time);
>         packets[i]->idle_time = ntohl (packets[i]->idle_time);

-- 
Robert K. Shull, Sr. Applications Programmer, Engineering Computer Network
rob@mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu
Disclaimer: OU can't afford opinions, so these must be mine.

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