mb@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Mark Benard) (09/07/89)
We am having trouble that prevents others from using finger to query our system. When they try it, they get the error message syslog: sendto: Bad file number Here are the lines showing the services and servers entries and the directory entry for in.fingerd. finger 79/tcp finger stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/etc/in.fingerd fingerd -rwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin 30720 Jul 11 17:09 /usr/etc/in.fingerd Any ideas? Is something configured wrong? Does it look like in.fingerd somehow got clobbered? -- Mark Benard Department of Computer Science INTERNET & BITNET: mb@cs.tulane.edu Tulane University USENET: rex!mb New Orleans, LA 70118
karl@godiva.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) (09/07/89)
mb@rex.cs.tulane.edu writes:
We am having trouble that prevents others from using finger to query
our system. When they try it, they get the error message
syslog: sendto: Bad file number
finger stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/etc/in.fingerd fingerd
At a guess (and only that), make sure that "nobody" is known to
/etc/passwd. This past weekend, I had a similar problem with one of
our Pyrs because an automatic update of /etc/passwd from one Pyr to
the others got messed up due to network troubles, ending with the loss
of `root' (of all usernames, sigh) from /etc/passwd. This caused such
basics as rlogin and telnet not to work; inetd wants to find the
userid under which the indicated daemon is supposed to run, and failed
to accomplish that.
--
Karl
"We make men without [sentiment] and expect of them virtue and
enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in
our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful." --Lewis