[9740] in Athena Bugs
decmips 7.4G: /usr/ucb/finger
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jweiss@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Tue Aug 4 17:07:15 1992
From: jweiss@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: cfields@Athena.MIT.EDU, bug-dialup@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 92 17:06:49 EDT
System name: tla
Type and version: KN01 7.4G (1 update(s) to same version)
Display type: PMAX-MFB
What were you trying to do?
finger at a DECstation that had an open ftp connection to it,
when ftpd was started with the -a (athena) option.
What's wrong:
finger says cannot stat /dev/ftp0 and exits
What should have happened:
finger should have returned the appropriate information.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
I discovered this while testing a DECstation for use in the
dialup pool. After talking to cfields who did the development work
for the athena-ized ftp I learned that /usr/ucb/finger on the DEC is
compiled from different (older?) sources than for the BSD platforms.
I have patched source to ryn on the future dialups, but something
should probably be done for Release 7.5 because anyone with a private
workstation who uses athena-ized ftp will have this problem.
