Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 15:00:04 -0800 (PST) From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: bin/2003: Finger does not work with many systems Message-ID: <199611132300.PAA23320@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 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: 415.428.6939
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