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From: GERLAND@UBVMS.BITNET.UUCP
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Subject: FINGER problems
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Date: Wed, 18-Feb-87 11:09:00 EST
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I have sent the following note to Rich Garland (SY$GARLAND@CUCHEM) but I
noticed he has not logged on since 19-Dec-1986 so I am posting to the net
to see if any of you can help.
=================================Enclosed Mail=================================
I have a problem with the FINGER database.  I am running FINGER here on a
cluster (2 8650s & 1 785).  When we first clustered I tried installing FINGER
& FINGERSHR from SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE] but the database would be wrong from time
to time.  Then I built a separate version of FINGER and FINGERSHR on SYS$SYSTEM
of each machine and submitted a FINGER-REBUILD com once a day on each machine
at the same time.  This helped a little but if a machine gets rebooted the
database once again is out of sync.  Have you seen this problem before?  If so,
do you have a suggestion to fix it?  I have over 5000 userids (mostly students)
who send me at least 10 pieces of mail everytime they notice that FINGER does
not show them their buddy's correct name.
 
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
 
Jim...
 
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