hmmm... nope. I deleted those files, and still the same $ finger @localhost [localhost]
$ is all that happens... I think it has something to do with inetd.conf: finger stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.fingerd -w -f it looks good to me, but it doesn't work. Jason Eggleston http://www-scf.usc.edu/~jegglest/ On Thu, 2 May 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Jason Eggleston writes: > Jason> How does one get this to work? It's running but it won't let other > Jason> hosts finger me. The man page says to add -f to the fingerd > Jason> command, but where and how? > > Quick shot from the hip: I bet you are looking at the wrong configuration > file. Check your /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny files to specify *who* > is allowed to get *what* from your machine. The man page to consult is > hosts_access(5). > > -- > Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd > >
