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rsaix 7.7K: finger

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sameer Raheja)
Thu Mar 23 19:17:36 1995

To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 19:17:26 EST
From: Sameer Raheja <sraheja@MIT.EDU>

System name:		bombardier
Type and version:	POWER 7.7K
Display type:		POWER_Gt1

What were you trying to do?
	finger sraheja

What's wrong:
	I got this error:

	-- 7:06pm ~> finger sraheja
	finger: error opening /etc/utmp


What should have happened:
	I should have gotten:
	
Login name: sraheja                     In real life: Sameer Raheja
Site Info: ,11-115,2531923,6172259462
Directory: /mit/sraheja                 Shell: /afs/sipb/project/tcsh/tcsh
	

Please describe any relevant documentation references:

-- 7:07pm ~> where finger
/usr/athena/bin/finger
/usr/ucb/finger
/bin/finger
/usr/bin/finger

only /usr/athena/bin/finger gave me the error.  Using all the other
versions gave me the correct result.  I would have suspected that it
was the fault of this particular workstation, except that users on
RS600's have reported the same problem to olc.



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