Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 11:59:10 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: khetan@iafrica.com (Khetan Gajjar) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd@iafrica.com, danielc@iafrica.com Subject: Re: Fingering other servers broken in 2.2 and -current ? Message-ID: <199701201859.LAA15819@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970120192820.3034B-100000@chain-work.iafrica.com> from "Khetan Gajjar" at Jan 20, 97 07:31:02 pm
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> I've noticed a oddity on some FreeBSD 2.2 and 3.0-current machines. If I > finger a user on a public host of ours, I just get the hostname in square > brackets i.e. [servername.somewhere.org] and nothing else. > > If I try it from a Solaris box or a Linux box on the same network, with > nothing more (or less) special on the public machine's hosts.allow, it > displays the relevant information. > > Any ideas ? You must recompile fingerd; the structure of utmp has recently changed in -current. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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