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Re: Finger @localhost
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miguel Angel Armas del R'io)
Mon Oct 30 19:21:26 1995
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 15:26:40 -0100 (GMT-0100)
From: "Miguel Angel Armas del R'io" <kuko@teleco.ulpgc.es>
To: Roman Dolejsi <roman@sorry.vse.cz>
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.951027075042.5178A-100000@sorry.vse.cz>
On Fri, 27 Oct 1995, Roman Dolejsi wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> I've installed Slack30 and the seems to be problem in finger part of
> Linux. When I simply write:
> finger
> everything works ok, but when I try to do something like this:
> finger @localhost
> finger client waits for something and I don't know why and for what. When
> I try to do finger query outside my machine, everything is ok. Any ideas ?
>
> Roman
Do you have localhost correctly set to your IP address or to 127.0.0.1
in /etc/hosts ?
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Miguel Armas del Rio kuko@cic.teleco.ulpgc.es
ETSI de Telecomunicaciones
Universidad de Las Palmas
Spain
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