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From: glaeske@plains.NoDak.edu (Brian Glaeske)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: fingerd fixed (was Re: pmake on NeXT)
Message-ID: <8700@plains.NoDak.edu>
Date: 5 Mar 91 01:15:29 GMT
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Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND
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In article <12196@pt.cs.cmu.edu> ddj@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu (Doug DeJulio) writes:
>me the same password file.  What can I do about this?  I don't want
>users' entries to show up twice when a user is fingered.
>--
>Doug DeJulio
>ddj@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu

On my machine, and other UNIX machines I have worked on, finger will list
the person as many times as the person is logged on.  For instance, if I did
a finger right now I would get finger info 3 times.  It is sort of like 'w'
which shows an individual line for each time you are logged in.

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