[30772] in Hotline Meeting
faulty finger command
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott C Deskin)
Fri Nov 10 14:50:34 1995
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 14:50:01 EST
From: Scott C Deskin <scdeskin@MIT.EDU>
I've been trying to invoke the finger command while logged into
athena. Usually, when I finger a user without a hostname, the
command defaults to athena and locates the user's last known
location, as well as telling if they're currently logged in.
finger@athena gives bare-bones information on the user but gives
no info on their whereabouts. finger@mit only gives MIT directory
info but, again, doesn't give time/location information.
When I try to invoke this command now, the message I get is:
finger: error opening /etc/utmpx
Even though the file /etc/utmpx does not exist.
Can you help me with this problem. The folks at SIPB couldn't.
The machine I logged in from (when this occurred) is w20-575-111.
I was also running an application for a class called ASPEN PLUS
(for chemical engineering) that keeps crashing itself. I don't
know if there is a connection.
Thank you for your time.
Scott Deskin
scdeskin@mit.edu
