Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 09:44:59 -0800 (PST) From: Tom <tom@sdf.com> To: Elya Kurktchi <kurktchi@qualcomm.com> Cc: chuckr@glue.umd.edu, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ph Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.971129094155.4819B-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <199711291707.JAA16684@tigerfish.qualcomm.com>
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On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, Elya Kurktchi wrote: > has PH functionality as well as finger built into it already). I use FBSD > 3.0-971003-SNAP with about 7,250 users on one machine and when you finger > a user on that machine, it is rather slow; but Ph will provide more finger is slow because it iterates through the entire passwd file. This is very slow, and produces a lot of results (often too many to be useful). I have replaced finger with a different finger that only looks for exact matches, unless you end the search sting with a "+". Tom
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