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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: fingerd fixed (was Re: pmake on NeXT)
Message-ID: <1400@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 5 Mar 91 23:29:34 GMT
References: <1395@toaster.SFSU.EDU> <12196@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <8700@plains.NoDak.edu>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <8700@plains.NoDak.edu> glaeske@plains.NoDak.edu
	(Brian Glaeske) writes:
>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.

That's true, and that's normal.  It turns out in Doug's cases
that he's attempting to do "traditional UNIX management" by
editing /etc/passwd and then niloading.  I asked him to try
cleaning out /etc/passwd, and his problem went away.

					-=EPS=-