From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 26 15:10:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA18635 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 15:10:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mhv.net (root@spice.mhv.net [199.0.0.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA18611 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 15:10:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mgraffam@mhv.net) From: mgraffam@mhv.net Received: from localhost (phundie@port143.mhv.net [206.229.41.71]) by mhv.net (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA01529; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 18:10:37 -0500 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 18:03:59 -0500 (EST) X-Sender: phundie@localhost To: Shawn Ramsey cc: mgraffam@mhv.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fingerd limiting? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Shawn Ramsey wrote: > Hmm. Now I get this : > > /usr/home/shawn> finger shawn@cpl.net > [cpl.net] > shawn > > > inetd.conf reads like this : > > finger stream tcp nowait nobody /bin/cat /etc/finger.msg Hmm. Thats odd. Are you sure that /etc/finger.msg exists? finger shawn@cpl.net will open a connection to port 79, and send the string "shawn" to what it thinks is fingerd.. of course, this is really cat. Cat then should spit /etc/finger.msg to the port, but instead it is reading stdin and spitting shawn back out. I'm stumped :) I have no idea why cat would ignore the argument that is being passed. Michael J. Graffam (mgraffam@mhv.net) http://www.mhv.net/~mgraffam -- Philosophy, Religion, Computers, Crypto, etc "Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's own understanding without the guidance of another. . .Sapere aude! Have the courage to use your own understanding!" - Immanuel Kant "What is Enlightenment?" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNPX05QKEiLNUxnAfAQHVpQQAqHUR81ORLVHSNRsWHDk9O6ZS8tsWsEd5 T1yDuMu2XA+vk29Y0bZ7znjyzButXRIp1Q9FT0YsUE8YQJYFPDt+Ee3YcyTa3mqA M54ZEX8MjalCQn58XRsi/6BXuIMZ9D4xU4sAVNg4i7B3X8w3umikTJ9ztZMSAF17 z6eXVEAVtyM= =+j8+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message