[11087] in Athena Bugs
Re: decmips 7.6G: finger @athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Tue Sep 28 08:07:43 1993
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 08:08:08 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@security.ov.com>
To: postmaster@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [11085]
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 93 18:06:36 EDT
From: Desmond R Lim <drlcs@MIT.EDU>
System name: navigator
Type and version: KN02ba 7.6G
Display type: PMAGB-BA
What were you trying to do?
finger user@athena
What's wrong:
This rerurns the electronic mail address field as
user@athena.mit.edu
What should have happened:
This should now show
user@mit.edu
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
Right now this really won't make much difference, but it would be nice
to have the email address look right so as not to confuse users.
Thanks!
Des
Here's a patch to the finger program running on Athena:
*** 1.9 1993/03/01 18:11:27
--- db_finger.c 1993/09/28 12:06:14
***************
*** 244,250 ****
printf("Shell: %s\n", shell);
#endif
#ifdef EMAIL
! printf("Electronic mail address: %s@ATHENA.MIT.EDU\n", username);
#endif
printf("\n");
}
--- 244,250 ----
printf("Shell: %s\n", shell);
#endif
#ifdef EMAIL
! printf("Electronic mail address: %s@MIT.EDU\n", username);
#endif
printf("\n");
}
This brings up an interesting question, though -- now that E-mail
addresses are at MIT.EDU instead of at ATHENA.MIT.EDU, are we going to
tell people to start fingering at MIT.EDU instead of ATHENA.MIT.EDU?
How are we going to resolve the fact that the finger information
returned by ATHENA.MIT.EDU is different from that which is returned by
MIT.EDU? Is the finger program running on ATHENA.MIT.EDU obsolete now
that the stuff on MIT.EDU exists?
jik
