Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!root%bostonu.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa From: BostonU SysMgrNewsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: finger @machine ? Message-ID: <7254@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Sat, 12-Jan-85 12:19:20 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.7254 Posted: Sat Jan 12 12:19:20 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 15-Jan-85 00:48:44 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 26 I modified our finger to do stuff like: finger @machine finger user@machine finger @internet-dotted-notation finger user@machine1@machine2 [good quick connectivity check] finger user@machinex user@machiney etc etc. I (obviously) also wrote a /etc/fingerd daemon to be started at boot time. My routine gathers all the remote command line args and sorts by host so mixed host requests re-order such that only one connection per host occurs. Send me a request and I'll put together a distribution. -Barry Shein, Boston University P.S. Needless to say I can only guarantee it works under 4.2bsd via TCP/IP. P.S.2. It uses the well known finger socket and seems to speak fine to at least one other remote finger server [Wollongong's TCP/IP under VMS] although it could have bugs which I would love to hear about and fix.