gayman@ARI-HQ1.ARPA.UUCP (02/19/87)
About FINGER ... if your database is smaller in size than the number of
users then you can expect problems in the reporting of username/owner.
Look at the file FINGERCOM.FOR and in particular at parameter max_users.
This should be set the number of users currently in your SYSUAF file.
If you set it to more than a 3 digit number, and I have, FINGMAINT.EXE will
report all of the users/owners correctly (after a rebuild) but the first
line reporting the number of users will look a little funny. I haven't
bothered to look into fixing that. Gook luck.
Elizabeth Gayman (GAYMAN@ARI-HQ1.ARPA)
Alexandria, VA 22314
(703) 274-8711
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I have sent the following note to Rich Garland (SY$GARLAND@CUCHEM) but I
noticed he has not logged on since 19-Dec-1986 so I am posting to the net
to see if any of you can help.
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I have a problem with the FINGER database. I am running FINGER here on a
cluster (2 8650s & 1 785). When we first clustered I tried installing FINGER
& FINGERSHR from SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE] but the database would be wrong from time
to time. Then I built a separate version of FINGER and FINGERSHR on SYS$SYSTEM
of each machine and submitted a FINGER-REBUILD com once a day on each machine
at the same time. This helped a little but if a machine gets rebooted the
database once again is out of sync. Have you seen this problem before? If so,
do you have a suggestion to fix it? I have over 5000 userids (mostly students)
who send me at least 10 pieces of mail everytime they notice that FINGER does
not show them their buddy's correct name.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
Jim...
Computer Center Room 226
University Computing Services
State University of New York at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260 (716) 636-3557
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