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Date:      Tue, 16 Apr 1996 09:11:58 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
To:        phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: fingerd
Message-ID:  <199604161411.JAA21072@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
In-Reply-To: <23381.829642364@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Apr 16, 96 08:12:44 am

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> I would really like to see fingerd print the local time as part of the
> output.  I hate it when I finger peter in .au and I have to figure
> out what time it is down there...
> 
> Comments ?

This should be easy to do as a local hack:

change fingerd line in inetd.conf to be

.... fingerd -p /usr/local/libexec/finger

% cat /usr/local/libexec/finger
#! /bin/sh -
/bin/date
exec /usr/bin/finger "$*"
%

Or something like that  :-)

... Joe

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