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From: winter@intersurf.com (Matthew N. Dodd)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD & GNU fingerd-1.37
Date: 16 Dec 1995 09:11:35 GMT
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Yoshi (yoshi@easy1.mediacity.com) wrote:
: 	Anyone gotten this beast to compile w/ FreeBSD? Even after hours
: 	of code modification, it still won't compile. (grumble grumble)
: 	Normally all GNU code combiles out-of-the-box. Strange.

This doesn't happen to be the "cfingerd" GNU finger does it? (the 
one that lists all finger info for a defined set of machines.)

I've had it working here for some time now.  I'm probably going to stop
using it though...  Its pretty slow and lags when its refreshing. 

I don't think it would be very difficult to write a finger that would 
use rwho data to keep track of who is logged on.  All you would have to
do is define which machines you wanted to list...

Humm...

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