leviatan@caen.engin.umich.edu (David Disser) (02/08/90)
Is there any standard convention for finding a specific person's id if you know the address? I finally dug up the right addresses for a few friends at various universities, but I still have to find what ids to mail to. Thanks in advance. Dave
davecb@yunexus.UUCP (David Collier-Brown) (02/10/90)
leviatan@caen.engin.umich.edu (David Disser) writes: >Is there any standard convention for finding a specific person's id if you >know the address? I finally dug up the right addresses for a few friends >at various universities, but I still have to find what ids to mail to. >Thanks in advance. Yup: (echo "$person"; echo) | telnet $machine 79" will get you something like yunexus:/ycs/davecb> telnet nexus 79 Trying... Connected to nexus.yorku.ca. Escape character is '^]'. davecb Login name: davecb In real life: David Collier-Brown Directory: /ycs/davecb Shell: /usr/local/bin/sylogin On since Feb 8 08:50:09 on ttyp0 from icarus:0.0 3 hours 57 minutes Idle Time New mail received Fri Feb 9 14:16:19 1990; unread since Fri Feb 9 14:08:41 1990 Project: My usual plan: appear to do nothing. Plan: Primary: summarize RFP bumpf think about criterias & rankings Secondary: Try to do "managment by exception": It's in "man 8 finger" --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | davecb@yunexus, ...!yunexus!davecb or 72 Abitibi Ave., | {toronto area...}lethe!dave Willowdale, Ontario, | Joyce C-B: CANADA. 416-223-8968 | He's so smart he's dumb.
mdb@ESD.3Com.COM (Mark D. Baushke) (02/12/90)
On 9 Feb 90 19:26:14 GMT, davecb@yunexus.UUCP (David Collier-Brown) said: David> leviatan@caen.engin.umich.edu (David Disser) writes: >Is there any standard convention for finding a specific person's id if you >know the address? I finally dug up the right addresses for a few friends >at various universities, but I still have to find what ids to mail to. >Thanks in advance. David> Yup: David> (echo "$person"; echo) | telnet $machine 79" Why use an unreadable '79' when 'finger' works just as well? (echo "$person"; echo) | telnet $machine finger" Of course, on my machine I typically use 'finger person@machine.domain' to get this same information. However, this is not much use unless the machine is reachable (both parties connected via the Internet). David> It's in "man 8 finger" My man page on finger (SunOS) has this to say: If a username argument contains an at-sign, ``@'', then a connection is attempted to the machine named after the at-sign, and the remote finger daemon is queried. -- Mark D. Baushke mdb@ESD.3Com.COM