On Tue, 18 Jan 2000 13:06:32 +0000
Colin Whittaker <grimnar at redbrick.dcu.ie> wrote:
| Paul Mc Auley stated the following on Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 10:45:53AM +0000 :
| > ...GNU finger?
| > It appears to be alive and well in the Maths Dept in TCD, but has anybody
| > ported it to Linux (before I start delving into the code).
| > For those wondering what I'm talking about, GNU finger had this useful feature
| > that you could poll assorted machines and present a unified finger listing for
| > a site.
| Its about for most systems, Its installed on my debian box at home, i
| think, I've set it up on solaris boxes in the past.
Hmm, URL? I tried looking at the source tree for slink and the only variant I
could see for cfinger.1.3.2 which, while sorting together multiple hosts,
doesn't present what I'm looking for viz.:
User Real Name What Idle TTY Host Console Location
auser A User *pf aserver other.host.ie
The version I used to run under SunOS 4 worked by having a second service
(cfinger) where a master machine polled the others for their local user data
and displayed a listing as show above. The last version I saw was
finger-1.3.7.
Paul
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