[7201] in testers
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
http://www.sneswhiz.com/