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Re: mail and finger info
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri May 19 11:52:58 1995
To: Stephen Franks <sdfranks@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 May 1995 16:54:55 EDT."
<199505172054.QAA12038@field-of-dreams.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 11:55:44 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> First, I would like to make it so I can receive messages sent
> locally to my machine (*@field-of-dreams.mit.edu, but still get
> messages sent to sdfranks@mit.edu.
I believe if you edit your /etc/netstart file and change
`sendmail_flags=NO' to `sendmail_flags="-bd -q30m"', this should start
happening.
> Second, is it possible to change the information given by the system
> to finger requests? Specifically, I would like to give machine
> uptime as well as a short message, similar to what linux does. Is
> this possible?
This is certainly possible, but not necessarily easy. What I would do
is make a local copy of the source for fingerd (available for a
limited time only in
/mit/netbsd/dev/netbsd-source/src/libexec/fingerd; the NetBSD-current
version is in /mit/netbsd/src/libexec/fingerd and will probably also
work) and modify it to do what you want. There are othre ways to go
about this, but I don't think they're any easier.
