Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!godiva.cis.ohio-state.edu!karl From: karl@godiva.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid Subject: Re: Problems with in.fingerd Message-ID: Date: 7 Sep 89 01:14:23 GMT References: <1081@rex.cs.tulane.edu> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: OSU Lines: 20 In-reply-to: mb@rex.cs.tulane.edu's message of 6 Sep 89 20:34:14 GMT mb@rex.cs.tulane.edu writes: We am having trouble that prevents others from using finger to query our system. When they try it, they get the error message syslog: sendto: Bad file number finger stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/etc/in.fingerd fingerd At a guess (and only that), make sure that "nobody" is known to /etc/passwd. This past weekend, I had a similar problem with one of our Pyrs because an automatic update of /etc/passwd from one Pyr to the others got messed up due to network troubles, ending with the loss of `root' (of all usernames, sigh) from /etc/passwd. This caused such basics as rlogin and telnet not to work; inetd wants to find the userid under which the indicated daemon is supposed to run, and failed to accomplish that. -- Karl "We make men without [sentiment] and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful." --Lewis