Linux-Hams archive - August 1997: Re: node and finger

Re: node and finger

Tomi Manninen (nlmbg@mpsisys.com)
Mon, 11 Aug 1997 12:35:02 +0300 (EETDST)


On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Ian Maude wrote:

> Exactly the same David. I have since realised that only the last
> character is being truncated!
>
> ie. finger temp@hostname
> returns no such user tem, BUT
> finger tempe@hostname WORKS for temp!!!

Looks like it could be some sort of problem with the end-of-line
conventions. But I really can't say anything else if you don't provide me
with any information about your system. What version of node, ax25-utils,
in.fingerd etc.

I can only say that it works just fine for me:

f tpm@oh2ti
OTANI:OH2RBI-1} Trying 44.139.8.6... Type <RETURN> to abort
OTANI:OH2RBI-1} Connected to 44.139.8.6
Login: tpm Name: Tomi Manninen
Directory: /staff/tpm Shell: /bin/tcsh
...
OTANI:OH2RBI-1} Reconnected to OTANI:OH2RBI-1

That was with my latest alpha version of node and with in.fingerd from
NetKit-B-0.08-14 redhat package.

> Curiouser and curiouser. BTW the same is true for any finger!

Any finger??? What does that mean? Didn't you say that fingering from the
shell works just fine? Or from [jt]nos?

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