Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 15:24:12 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> Cc: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: bin/2003: Finger does not work with many systems Message-ID: <199611132324.PAA24670@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Nov 1996 15:00:04 PST." <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 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 =========================================== FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================
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