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To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: bin/2003: Finger does not work with many systems 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 13 Nov 1996 15:00:04 PST."
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Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 15:24:12 -0800
From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>The following reply was made to PR bin/2003; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
>From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
>To: jmaslak@blackfire.com
>Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: bin/2003: Finger does not work with many systems 
>Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 14:43:11 -0800
>
> On Wed, 13 Nov 1996 15:23:30 -0700 (MST) 
>  Joel Maslak <jmaslak@blackfire.com> wrote:
> 
>  > 	/usr/bin/finger does not seem to like Linux.  ;)
>  > 	When a linux site is fingered (not sure which versions, but
>  > 	Red Hat 3.0 and Slackware 3.0, for sure), a blank response
>  > 	is shown:
>  > 		bash$ finger @afterhours
>  > 		[afterhours.blackfire.com]
>  > 		bash$ 
>  > 	It does not work if a username is specified, either.
>  > 	I also fingered these sites from a A/UX machine and a Linux
>  > 	machine, and both work fine.  (Response is not empty)
> 
> This probably has more to do with the Linux system.  Odds are that
> it's running GNU finger which is what I would call "lame by default".
> Try passing -l...
> 
> 	finger -l @afterhours
> 
> If that works as you'd expect, I'd say it's broken Linux software :-)
> 
> Jason R. Thorpe                                       thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
> NASA Ames Research Center                               Home: 408.866.1912
> NAS: M/S 258-6                                          Work: 415.604.0935
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Actually, FreeBSD finger is a TTCP app and is probably showing that, at least
the version of Linux running on those machines, does not have an RFC compliant
TCP stack.  You can disable the use of TTCP with the -T finger option.

--
Justin T. Gibbs
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