01-25-2002
Quote:
Originally posted by refram
Would a simple Linux box on a workstation be the answer? Would somthing like that be able to provide access to the program in such a way that the users wouldn't hate it? There are only about 20 people in the office who are using this program.
I was so jazzed on the two years without a backup, I didn't quote the last part of the previous message and went off on a tangent.
LivinFree is correct. Do you have the source code or installation media? What is the current flavor of Unix that the system is currently running?
You can go to Fry's Electronics (if they exist near you) and purchase a Duron 950 MHz bare bones machine (motherboard, case, keyboard, speakers and mouse. Onboard video and audio) for roughly $120. Not exactly big bucks. Throw in your memory, CD and HD and you are on the run.
Two of my co-workers ran out and got these boxes two days ago and plan to make *BSD and Linux servers out of these new boxen.
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finger
FINGER(1) BSD General Commands Manual FINGER(1)
NAME
finger -- user information lookup program
SYNOPSIS
finger [-lmsp] [user ...] [user@host ...]
DESCRIPTION
The finger displays information about the system users.
Options are:
-s Finger displays the user's login name, real name, terminal name and write status (as a ``*'' after the terminal name if write permis-
sion is denied), idle time, login time, office location and office phone number.
Login time is displayed as month, day, hours and minutes, unless more than six months ago, in which case the year is displayed rather
than the hours and minutes.
Unknown devices as well as nonexistent idle and login times are displayed as single asterisks.
-l Produces a multi-line format displaying all of the information described for the -s option as well as the user's home directory, home
phone number, login shell, mail status, and the contents of the files ``.plan'', ``.project'', ``.pgpkey'' and ``.forward'' from the
user's home directory.
Phone numbers specified as eleven digits are printed as ``+N-NNN-NNN-NNNN''. Numbers specified as ten or seven digits are printed as
the appropriate subset of that string. Numbers specified as five digits are printed as ``xN-NNNN''. Numbers specified as four digits
are printed as ``xNNNN''.
If write permission is denied to the device, the phrase ``(messages off)'' is appended to the line containing the device name. One
entry per user is displayed with the -l option; if a user is logged on multiple times, terminal information is repeated once per login.
Mail status is shown as ``No Mail.'' if there is no mail at all, ``Mail last read DDD MMM ## HH:MM YYYY (TZ)'' if the person has looked
at their mailbox since new mail arriving, or ``New mail received ...'', `` Unread since ...'' if they have new mail.
-p Prevents the -l option of finger from displaying the contents of the ``.plan'', ``.project'' and ``.pgpkey'' files.
-m Prevent matching of user names. User is usually a login name; however, matching will also be done on the users' real names, unless the
-m option is supplied. All name matching performed by finger is case insensitive.
If no options are specified, finger defaults to the -l style output if operands are provided, otherwise to the -s style. Note that some
fields may be missing, in either format, if information is not available for them.
If no arguments are specified, finger will print an entry for each user currently logged into the system.
Finger may be used to look up users on a remote machine. The format is to specify a user as ``user@host'', or ``@host'', where the default
output format for the former is the -l style, and the default output format for the latter is the -s style. The -l option is the only option
that may be passed to a remote machine.
If standard output is a socket, finger will emit a carriage return (^M) before every linefeed (^J). This is for processing remote finger
requests when invoked by fingerd(8).
FILES
~/.nofinger If finger finds this file in a user's home directory, it will, for finger requests originating outside the local host,
firmly deny the existence of that user. For this to work, the finger program, as started by fingerd(8), must be able to see
the .nofinger file. This generally means that the home directory containing the file must have the other-users-execute bit
set (o+x). See chmod(1). If you use this feature for privacy, please test it with ``finger @localhost'' before relying on
it, just in case.
~/.plan
~/.project
~/.pgp These files are printed as part of a long-format request. The .project file is limited to one line; the .plan file may be
arbitrarily long.
SEE ALSO
chfn(1), passwd(1), w(1), who(1)
HISTORY
The finger command appeared in 3.0BSD.
Linux NetKit (0.17) August 15, 1999 Linux NetKit (0.17)