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- From: mfrankow@hamline.edu (Mike Frankowski)
- Subject: Re: AAAAAAGHHHHHH! Wake up fingerd!
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 03:53:15 GMT
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- Chris Wells (Chris.Wells@purplet.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- : Hi Linuxers,
- :
- : OKAY! This is an Easy question:
- :
- : Has anyone got finger to work from other machine to the Linux host? eg,
- : finger @thishost, where "thishost" is a 486DX33 8Mb, running 0.99pl2.
- :
- : All I get back is:
- :
- : [thishost.linux.net]
- :
- :
- : The same thing happens if I do a "telnet thishost 79".
- :
- : Oh, and I'm running most of the latest SLS binaries.
- :
- :
- : I would REALLY like to know what the matter is.
- : Furthermore I can't get talk to work "Destination machine does not recognise
- : us", or something like that.
- :
- : Telnet, and FTP work almost perfectly. (Okay, Telnet expects ^J for a line
- : to be accepted, but most hosts I have used that have telnet send ^M.
- : Similarly for ^? and ^H ).
- :
- :
- : PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Reply (via email PLEASE to "cjw1@ukc.ac.uk". The host
- : is down at the moment which explains why I am using a Bulletin Board).
- :
- :
- : Chris
- : -----
-
- Easy to anser I think (if I am correct that is)
-
- ln -s /usr/bin/finger /usr/local/bin/finger
-
- and it should then work.
-
- Mike
-