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Date:      Mon, 15 Mar 1999 00:28:48 +0000
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To:        Paul Dekkers <psd@cgu.nl>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailinglist <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: strace, or: finger gives permission denied...
Message-ID:  <19990315002848.C94512@scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990315001832.20886B-100000@chippie.cgu>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990315001832.20886B-100000@chippie.cgu>

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Paul Dekkers wrote:

> As a normal user I get a "permission denied" when executing finger as a
> normal user. Really don't know what has changed that might have caused
> this, so I looked for strace to find it out, but couldn't find it - in
> which pagacke is it? I saw it in the linux_... packages, but I want the
> real FreeBSD version (if there is one...).

Look at ktrace and truss instead of strace.

> Or, if you know why finger gives this strange reaction...

No. Is "permission denied" the only thing finger says? Not preceded by the
name of a file/function, or anything?

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Ben Smithurst
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