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finger: /var/log/lastlog open error

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Chen)
Fri Jun 24 11:12:01 2005

Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 11:11:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kevin Chen <kchen@MIT.EDU>
To: testers@MIT.EDU
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On scyther.mit.edu, a Linux-Athena 9.4.9 machine:

[~ scyther]% finger foo
finger: /var/log/lastlog open error

Local:
Login name: foo                         In real life: ???

Athena-wide:
Login name: foo                         In real life: ???

[~ scyther]% ls -l /var/log/lastlog
-r--------  1 root root 19M Jun 24 08:25 /var/log/lastlog

Fingering users who are logged in does not result in the error message. 
Fingering any user does not result in the error message on my 
Solaris-Athena 9.4.9 machine.

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Kevin Chen
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