[6982] in Hotline Meeting
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (salemme@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Wed Dec 4 11:02:50 1991
From: salemme@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 91 11:02:32 -0500
To: acevedo@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: hotline@Athena.MIT.EDU, op@Athena.MIT.EDU
I believe f $user@athena
[athena.MIT.EDU]connect: Connection refused
is correct behaviour, since it is looking for a user on a specific
machine, athena.mit.edu (which users do not login to). To look up
a user, use the command
f $user
which should work as you'd expect.
In your report, /etc/ping shows that athena.mit.edu was responding
to pings, and nfsping times out (athena.mit.edu isn't an nfs server, so
this is no surprise).
Perhaps I've overlooked something in your mail message... were you
reporting a problem? If so, please be more explicit. Thanks.
Anne Salemme
Athena Systems Support
