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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.intersurf.net!dim!winter From: winter@intersurf.com (Matthew N. Dodd) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD & GNU fingerd-1.37 Date: 16 Dec 1995 10:31:58 GMT Organization: InterSurf Online, Inc. Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4au76u$ncd@dim.intersurf.net> References: <4asduh$d1@easy2.mediacity.com> <4au2g7$ncd@dim.intersurf.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: dim.intersurf.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Matthew N. Dodd (winter@intersurf.com) wrote: : 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... Well, here I go following up to myself again. *sigh* Anyhow, I looked at the code and one of the things tha rwhod doesn't send is the tty locked/unlocked status. Other than that everything should work. Of course, you will have to be 1) running YP/NIS so that getpwent does the right thing when it gets called 2) mounting your user drives on all machines so that .nofinger works. In light of this, I don't thing it will be very usefull to the majority of people. It does solve my problem so I'm going to try to finish it. (maybe, when I get some more sleep) -- | Matthew N. Dodd | winter@jurai.net | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | | Technical Manager | mdodd@intersurf.net | http://www.intersurf.net | | InterSurf Online | "Welcome to the net Sir, would you like a handbasket?"|