[comp.sys.pyramid] finger doesn't

leif@lkbpyr.UUCP (Leif Ljung) (07/21/89)

Although fingerd is there and the setup seems ok  finger(1)  
ignores any command lines in the form of   user@other-host.
There is no error message, just a reply that the local user
'user@other-host' doesn't exist.
I've installed the tahoe finger and it works perfectly
with Pyramids  fingerd.
Any clues?

--Leif Ljung
leif@phlux.lkb.se||uunet!mcvax!sunic!lkbpyr!leif

csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) (07/22/89)

In article <89@lkbpyr.UUCP> leif@lkbpyr.lkb.se (Leif Ljung) writes:
>Although fingerd is there and the setup seems ok  finger(1)  
>ignores any command lines in the form of   user@other-host.
>
>Any clues?

Yeah. We screwed up. It was one of those deals where the code got ported and
installed in a private directory, but never made it into the release. It
*still* didn't get fixed in OSx 5.0, as someone reminded me today. I'll make
sure it goes into whatever comes out next. Meanwhile, 4.3BSD-tahoe finger
source is available from uunet, and it compiles and runs just fine. 

<csg>

steve@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Steve DeJarnett) (07/22/89)

In article <89@lkbpyr.UUCP> leif@lkbpyr.lkb.se (Leif Ljung) writes:
>Although fingerd is there and the setup seems ok  finger(1)  
>ignores any command lines in the form of   user@other-host.

	I suspect that the Pyramid finger(1) is a remnant of 4.2BSD.  
Installing the 4.3BSD finger(1) works just fine.  I suspect (with a little
inside info :-) that it's fixed in OSx 5.0.

>--Leif Ljung
>leif@phlux.lkb.se||uunet!mcvax!sunic!lkbpyr!leif

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