szeto@aludra.usc.edu (Johnny Szeto) (09/23/90)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc Subject:finger anomalies Summary: Expires: References: <1990Sep19.215622.15073@hq.demos.su> <1990Sep20.124422.5930@robobar.co.uk> <1990Sep20.132235.911@hq.demos.su> <8552@ncar.ucar.edu> <1990Sep20.164828.2391@hq.demos.su> <8559@ncar.ucar.edu> <1990Sep21.091537.7858@hq.demos.su> Sender: Reply-To: leung@ee.rochester.edu (Chinman Leung) Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: University of Rochester Department of Electrical Engineering Keywords: FINGER When I use the command 'finger' in my shell script, I discover a weird problem The thing is whenever finger cannot find a certain host it returns unknown host on the standard output rather than on diagnostic output and the status is 0 signifying a success operation. I really feel bothered by it. Can someone explain?