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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Fingering other servers broken in 2.2 and -current ?
To: khetan@iafrica.com (Khetan Gajjar)
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 11:59:10 -0700 (MST)
Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd@iafrica.com, danielc@iafrica.com
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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
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