From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Jan 7 02:54:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA04088 for ports-outgoing; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 02:54:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA04068 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 02:54:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id LAA10553; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 11:53:56 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA22849; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 11:53:55 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id LAA08363; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 11:52:57 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601071052.LAA08363@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: GNU Finger Installation. To: mayd@maths.uwa.edu.au (David May) Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 11:52:57 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de In-Reply-To: <199601071003.CAA01403@freefall.freebsd.org> from "David May" at Jan 7, 96 06:00:49 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As David May wrote: > > Question: are there any known problems with GNU finger. Has anybody installed > it successfully? Or is it just my installation attempt thatwas wrong? I have done it recently, though i haven't been able to make a port, mainly since a somewhat sophisticated configuration script is required. If somebody wants to jump in, i can pass the diffs for it, including diffs to properly use the procfs (our procfs largely differs from SysV, which GNUfinger's idea of procfs was apparently based upon). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)