From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 21 04:54:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id EAA17978 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 04:54:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from chain-work.iafrica.com (khetan@chain-work.iafrica.com [196.31.1.66]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id EAA17962 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 04:53:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (khetan@localhost) by chain-work.iafrica.com (8.8.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA07763; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 14:53:27 +0200 (SAT) X-Authentication-Warning: chain-work.iafrica.com: khetan owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 14:53:26 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar To: Dave Andersen cc: hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd@iafrica.com, danielc@iafrica.com Subject: Re: Fingering other servers broken in 2.2 and -current ? In-Reply-To: <199701202114.OAA12450@fluffy.aros.net> Message-ID: X-Alternate-Address: gjjkhe01@sonnenberg.uct.ac.za X-PGP-Fingerprint: FF F9 1C B8 39 06 1E CD 60 4C E8 57 2D A3 46 E7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Dave Andersen wrote: > To disable T/TCP with finger, supply the "-T" option to finger: > finger -T user@some-non-FreeBSD-host Great! This solved the "problem", but I guess the problem lies with the Linux box I was trying to finger. I've just set the finger environment variable to -T, because the majority of hosts I would finger around the office aren't FreeBSD boxes. I guess I should have tried the man page first - it does say it quite clearly :-( "-T Disable the use of T/TCP (see ttcp(4)). This option is needed to finger hosts with a broken TCP implementation." Thanks for all the comments, guys. Now I know why I run FreeBSD - because of the great help :-) --- Khetan Gajjar [ http://www.iafrica.com/~khetan] I'm a FreeBSD User! [ http://www.freebsd.org ] PGP Key [finger khetan@chain.iafrica.com] UUNet Internet Africa [0800-030-002 & help@iafrica.com]