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- From: rob@essex.ecn.uoknor.edu (Robert K Shull)
- Subject: Re: finger-1.36 minor bug on hpxu-id
- Message-ID: <1992Oct14.195653.12195@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
- Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu
- Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
- References: <NEAL.92Oct13093319@neal.ctd.comsat.com>
- Distribution: gnu
- Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 19:56:53 GMT
- Approved: bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu
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- neal@ctd.COMsat.COM (Neal Becker) writes:
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- >Thanks for finger-1.36! Installation was a lot easier than 1.35. One
- >minor problem:
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- >On hpux 8.07 finger shows entries for terminal "co" (console, I guess)
- >which all show idle time of 24 years! Anyone know why?
-
- The client end converts the two times it keeps to network order, but
- the server doesn't convert them back.
- The following patch to fingerd.c appears to work ok.
- Robert
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- RCS file: RCS/fingerd.c,v
- retrieving revision 1.1
- diff -r1.1 fingerd.c
- 670a671,672
- > packets[i]->login_time = ntohl (packets[i]->login_time);
- > packets[i]->idle_time = ntohl (packets[i]->idle_time);
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- --
- Robert K. Shull, Sr. Applications Programmer, Engineering Computer Network
- rob@mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu
- Disclaimer: OU can't afford opinions, so these must be mine.
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