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9.4: finger on Suns

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laura Baldwin)
Wed May 18 13:29:11 2005

Message-Id: <200505181729.j4IHT43C024712@geskekelud.mit.edu>
To: testers@MIT.EDU
cc: justom@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 13:29:04 -0400
From: Laura Baldwin <boojum@MIT.EDU>


Finger returns "finger: Can't stat /dev/:0" to a 9.4 Sun workstation
that someone is logged into.   (It successfully fingers if there's
nobody logged in.)

% finger @dale
[dale.MIT.EDU]
No one logged on

% finger @dale
[dale.MIT.EDU]
finger: Can't stat /dev/:0

% finger boojum@geskekelud
[geskekelud.mit.edu]
finger: Can't stat /dev/:0

This is true on geskekelud, and fingering individual users on geskekelud
as well.  geskekelud has a passwd.local; dale does not.   

Finger seems to work okay on 9.4 Linux. 


-Laura

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