mb@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Mark Benard) (07/29/89)
I just noticed a problem with remote use of finger on this 9815 running OSx4.4+many-patches (~4.4c ?). When I try "finger user@other-host", the system just treats it like a local inquiry and comes back immediately with "???". Using "finger user@rex" or "telnet rex finger" from another host results in a "syslog: sendto: bad file number" error message. finger is listed in the services and servers file. The binary is owned by root with the suid bit set. Is there a problem with Pyramid's finger and is this just my problem? Mark -- Mark Benard Department of Computer Science INTERNET & BITNET: mb@cs.tulane.edu Tulane University USENET: rex!mb New Orleans, LA 70118
steve@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Steve DeJarnett) (07/31/89)
In article <951@rex.cs.tulane.edu> mb@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Mark Benard) writes: [ Mark writes about Pyramid's finger(1) not working for remote lookups of the form user@host (i.e. finger joe@host.dom) ] >Is there a problem with Pyramid's finger and is this just my problem? Yes, there's a problem. I thought this had gotten discussed here recently, but maybe it was in mail to Carl (csg). If you have the 4.3 finger source, simply compile and install. It works. If not, check uunet. The 4.3 finger was apparently ported a long time ago by Pyramid, but never made it into the source distribution. A little bird told me it'd be in the next release beyond 5.0 (5.1, 5.0.1, whatever). >Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Steve DeJarnett | Smart Mailers -> steve@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU | | Computer Systems Lab | UUCP Mail -> ..!uunet!polyslo.CalPoly.EDU!steve| | Cal Poly State Univ. |------------------------------------------------| | San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 | BITNET = Because Idiots Type NETwork | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------