Fergal Moran wrote:
> The finger appears to run through fine - as it must have seeing as the
> output of the finger command is in the mail sent to root. The only
> errors in the strace log are quite a few along the lines of
>> 13127 close(61) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
>> But nothing else except for a few grumps about .plan's not being
> readable
> I can send the trace to someone if they have the time/inclination to
> have a read..
>>>>kevin
>> Fergal..
>
Do you perhaps have tcp_wrappers set to try and finger inbound traffic
anywhere? Check /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny
Cheers,
Waider.
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