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- From: corywest@is.rice.edu (Cory West)
- Subject: Re: AAAAAAGHHHHHH! Wake up fingerd!
- In-Reply-To: mfrankow@hamline.edu's message of Fri, 8 Jan 1993 03:53:15 GMT
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- Organization: Well, none really, but I know where my socks are!
- References: <21.2B4A0D69@purplet.demon.co.uk> <1993Jan8.035315.8607@uc.msc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 10:11:31 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan8.035315.8607@uc.msc.edu>
- mfrankow@hamline.edu (Mike Frankowski) writes:
-
- > 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.
-
- To take the black magic out of the fix, this works, because
- fingerd (and this is in the readme if you grab the source) needs to
- know the location of finger at compile time. Since the location of
- finger is assumed to be /usr/bin/finger at compile time, this dependency
- gets compiled into the binary. Make a link from finger on your system
- to /usr/bin/finger and things should go. If not, grab the source
- for fingerd, read the readme, and recompile (the source is small).
-
- Cory West
-