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Started by Brian J. Eck
Thu, 01 Oct 1992 16:46
Bug with GNU Finger 1.35
Author: Brian J. Eck
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1992 16:46
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1992 16:46
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First, the info... I was using Finger 1.35, obtained from gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/GNU/finger-1.35.tar.Z on 9/21/92. The server was running on a Sun Sparcstation 2 under SunOS 4.1.1. Clients included a SPARCserver 690MP running SunOS 4.1.2 and a Sparcstation 1 running 4.1.2. I used gcc 2.1, with the -O flag. We've experienced some strange behavior. Some users cannot be fingered without the -l flag; this is after the server had been up and running about a day, so it certainly should have been all set up by then. Here's a script of the bug: [saul] 4:26pm -> finger chip There is no user named chip here; check your spelling. Feel free to contact postmaster@central.cis.upenn.edu for further assistance in locating this person. You can also try to use part of the real name, if known. E.g., ``finger stallman@gnu.ai.mit.edu''. It is also quite possible that chip is a mail alias. In that case, you can finger it by giving the ``-l'' option to your finger program (or --info if you're using the GNU Finger client). Aliases are not looked up without this option due to the extra processing involved. [saul] 4:26pm -> finger -l chip Charles H. Buchholtz (chip) Home: /home/chip Shell: /bin/csh No mail. User chip has never logged on. Last login on ttys0 from ENIAC.SEAS.UPENN, on Thu Sep 17 09:34:11 1992 Plan file exists, but is unreadable. Project file exists, but is unreadable. [saul] 4:26pm -> finger chip There is no user named chip here; check your spelling. Feel free to contact postmaster@central.cis.upenn.edu for further assistance in locating this person. You can also try to use part of the real name, if known. E.g., ``finger stallman@gnu.ai.mit.edu''. It is also quite possible that chip is a mail alias. In that case, you can finger it by giving the ``-l'' option to your finger program (or --info if you're using the GNU Finger client). Aliases are not looked up without this option due to the extra processing involved. brian
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