Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!slxsys!ibmpcug!dylan From: dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk (Matthew Farwell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer Subject: Re: Who's fingering me? (was Re: how to put a program into a .plan file Message-ID: <1990Sep30.132602.11594@ibmpcug.co.uk> Date: 30 Sep 90 13:26:02 GMT References: <2867@litchi.bbn.com> <376@ra.abo.fi> <4109@rtifs1.UUCP> <38200@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <1990Sep29.141154.3546@ibmpcug.co.uk> Reply-To: dylan@ibmpcug.CO.UK (Matthew Farwell) Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK. Lines: 28 In article jwz@lucid.com (Jamie Zawinski) writes: >In article <1990Sep29.141154.3546@ibmpcug.co.uk> dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk (Matthew Farwell) writes: >> In article <38200@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> haozhou@acsu.buffalo.edu (hao zhou) writes: >>> A further question: >>> Is it possible to figure out who have fingered you? >> You could:- >> 1) Search the process table looking for the keyword 'finger'. All this would >This only works if the person fingering you is doing so from your machine. Ok. I admit it. My solutions only work if there is one machine. You're right that one way to do it would be to hack fingerd. I've got an excuse in that I haven't got fingerd running on my machine(s). >> 2) Perhaps a more reliable method would be to go and get the active >> inode information from a program like pstat. (On Xenix, the option would >> be pstat -i). This gives you the device, the inode number and the uid >> of all currently active inodes. Therefore you can work out who is >> fingering you. >I don't follow - are you looking for the user who has your .plan file open? Yes. Dylan. -- Matthew J Farwell | Email: dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk The IBM PC User Group, PO Box 360,| ...!uunet!ukc!ibmpcug!dylan Harrow HA1 4LQ England | CONNECT - Usenet Access in the UK!! Phone: +44 81-863-1191 | Sun? Don't they make coffee machines?