"Reginald R. Hutcherson" <hutch@sri-spam> (01/12/85)
fellow wizards,
i've used the finger program on the Tops-20 o.s and like the fact
that i could get a listing of who is on a given machine by doing
the following:
finger @machine-name
is there such a program on unix, or is this something unique to the
Tops-20 environment; moreover could anyone point me in the right direction
so as to design the algorithum for doing this on unix, as i'm a novice with
respect to the communication software and what would be needed(i.e, opening
sockets, tcp/ip protocals, etc..) to establish a connection to another
machine and asking for the appropriate information, but i'm interested
in learning about this type of thing.
thanks in advance,
-- hutch
--------BostonU SysMgr <root%bostonu.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa> (01/12/85)
I modified our finger to do stuff like: finger @machine finger user@machine finger @internet-dotted-notation finger user@machine1@machine2 [good quick connectivity check] finger user@machinex user@machiney etc etc. I (obviously) also wrote a /etc/fingerd daemon to be started at boot time. My routine gathers all the remote command line args and sorts by host so mixed host requests re-order such that only one connection per host occurs. Send me a request and I'll put together a distribution. -Barry Shein, Boston University P.S. Needless to say I can only guarantee it works under 4.2bsd via TCP/IP. P.S.2. It uses the well known finger socket and seems to speak fine to at least one other remote finger server [Wollongong's TCP/IP under VMS] although it could have bugs which I would love to hear about and fix.
mark@tove.UUCP (Mark Weiser) (01/13/85)
We have had a program named 'fing' running on our vaxes since 4.1bsd
days which does this. It was apparently written by Chris Kent,
then (still?) of Purdue.
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