[4444] in Athena Bugs
f and finger
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Rosenstein)
Wed Mar 7 14:33:16 1990
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 90 14:32:46 -0500
From: Mark Rosenstein <mar@MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
There are two versions of finger on the (vax 6.4R) packs, and "f"
binds to the non-athena one:
Toto>where f
/usr/ucb/f
Toto>where finger
/usr/athena/finger
/usr/ucb/finger
Toto>ls -ls /usr/ucb/{f,finger} /usr/athena/finger
78 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 79872 Nov 27 00:19 /usr/athena/finger
1 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root 6 Dec 22 23:04 /usr/ucb/f -> finger
41 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 41984 May 23 1988 /usr/ucb/finger
Toto>
If we are going to keep the old finger at all (I don't think we need
it), it should be renamed to "finger.ucb". The link "f" should be
deleted or should be put in /usr/athena to point to our version of
finger.
Note that the non-athena finger doesn't use hesiod to get info about
people not currently logged in to the workstation.
-Mark
