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- From: dalibor@immd3.INformatik.uni-erlangen.DE (Stefan Dalibor)
- Subject: bug-report for finger-1.37
- Message-ID: <9211191758.AA02924@faui33.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
- Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu
- Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
- Distribution: gnu
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 19:58:37 GMT
- Approved: bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu
- Lines: 107
-
- Hi,
- we just completed installation of finger-1.37. We found 1 bug in src/fingerd.c
- and had some difficulties during the installation due to differences between
- the source and the documentation (and our misunderstanding of the latter :-).
- Filenames with extensions `-dist' refer to the files of the original distri-
- bution.
- (Scroll through items by looking for [1-4] at beginning of line.)
-
- 1. Bug in src/finger.c:
- The fingerd master-server crashes when started with the (undocumented?)
- option '-i <secs>'.
- Reason: Missing colon (for option -i) in the argument string to
- getopt_long() in line 148 of fingerd.c; furthermore we think
- it should be checked that the user specified an additional
- argument before trying to convert it with atoi(). The following
- works for us:
-
- faui30a:~LS/finger-1.37/src(0)5 diff -c fingerd.c fingerd.c-dist
- *** fingerd.c Tue Nov 17 10:46:42 1992
- --- fingerd.c-dist Tue Nov 17 10:41:53 1992
- ***************
- *** 145,151 ****
- default_error_handling (argv[0]);
-
- /* Parse arguments. */
- ! while ((optc = getopt_long (argc, argv, "datfi:", longopts, NULL)) >= 0)
- switch (optc)
- {
- case 'd':
- --- 145,151 ----
- default_error_handling (argv[0]);
-
- /* Parse arguments. */
- ! while ((optc = getopt_long (argc, argv, "datfi", longopts, NULL)) >= 0)
- switch (optc)
- {
- case 'd':
- ***************
- *** 167,173 ****
- break;
-
- case 'i':
- ! if ((optarg == NULL) || (time_between_polls = atoi (optarg)) < 0)
- time_between_polls = DEFAULT_POLL_INTERVAL;
- break;
-
- --- 167,173 ----
- break;
-
- case 'i':
- ! if ((time_between_polls = atoi (optarg)) < 0)
- time_between_polls = DEFAULT_POLL_INTERVAL;
- break;
-
- 2. It took us some time (actually we had to use gdb :-) to find out that
- the finger client-program uses it's argv[0] as the name of the service
- by (under? - sorry for my bad english!) which it tries to contact the
- finger-server.
- We think that should be pointed out more clearly in the documentation / in-
- stallation-guideline. We could imagine more people wanting to call gnus's
- finger-program as gnu-finger.
- Perhaps BASENAME_IS_SERVICE should not be defined by default in config.h?
-
- 3. And here the rest of the usual bug-report informations:
- Program version: finger-1.37 from prep.ai.mit.edu
- Hardware: Sun3 and Sun4
- Operating System: SunOs 4.1.2
- Compiler: Sun's cc and gcc version 2.2
- Arguments to configure:
- none on sun4
- CC='cc -O' on sun3 (broken gcc, too lazy to install correct version :-)
- Changes to configuration files:
-
- faui30a:~LS/finger-1.37(0)14 diff config.h config.h-dist
- 62c62
- < #define CHECK_OWNER_FINGERRC
- ---
- > /* #define CHECK_OWNER_FINGERRC */
- 66c66
- < #define CHECK_RDONLY_FINGERRC
- ---
- > /* #define CHECK_RDONLY_FINGERRC */
- 89c89
- < #define FINGERRC_SHELL "/bin/sh"
- ---
- > /* #define FINGERRC_SHELL "/bin/sh" */
- 95c95
- < #define DEFAULT_POLL_INTERVAL 300
- ---
- > #define DEFAULT_POLL_INTERVAL 120
- 98,100c98
- < #ifdef sparc
- < #define HAVE_X11
- < #endif
- ---
- > /* #define HAVE_X11 */
-
- Changes to source code: see 1. above
- Changes to installation procedures: none besides adaption to local pathnames
- Network configuration: see hardware/operating system/compiler above
- Installation problems: see 2. above
-
- 4. Looking forward to future versions of finger (and other gnu programs)!
-
- Bye,
- Stefan
-
-