Re: How many i am fingered?

On 8 Jan 2007 06:22:51 -0800 Prasad <prasadjoshi124@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

| If I try cat on .plan it is working. But, finger on the user does not
| seem to be working.
|
| [Prasad@prasadjoshi ~]$ cat .plan
| No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani
| re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani
| re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani
| re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani
| re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani
| re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani
| re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani
| re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani
| re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani
| re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani
| re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani
| re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani re.No Plani re.[Prasad@prasadjoshi
| ~]$

Maybe finger is specifically checking for a regular file. Try running
finger via strace to see what steps it is doing (you would expect to
see it open ".plan" if it is going to do what you want to accomplish).

$ strace -ftt -o /tmp/finger.strace finger Prasad

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