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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users finger command Post 302095896 by Tornado on Saturday 11th of November 2006 10:38:03 PM
Old 11-11-2006
Finger is disabled on all our servers, just like talk, and rwall are.

You would be better of getting the info from the passwd file.
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rpc.rwalld(1M)                                            System Administration Commands                                            rpc.rwalld(1M)

NAME
rpc.rwalld, rwalld - network rwall server SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/netsvc/rwall/rpc.rwalld DESCRIPTION
rpc.rwalld is a server that handles rwall(1M) requests. It is implemented by calling wall(1M) on all the appropriate network machines. The rpc.rwalld daemon may be started by inetd(1M) or listen(1M). ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWrcmds | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
svcs(1), inetadm(1M), inetd(1M), listen(1M), rwall(1M), svcadm(1M), wall(1M), attributes(5), smf(5) NOTES
The rpc.rwalld service is managed by the service management facility, smf(5), under the service identifier: svc:/network/rpc/wall:default Administrative actions on this service, such as enabling, disabling, or requesting restart, can be performed using svcadm(1M). Responsibil- ity for initiating and restarting this service is delegated to inetd(1M). Use inetadm(1M) to make configuration changes and to view config- uration information for this service. The service's status can be queried using the svcs(1) command. SunOS 5.10 4 Nov 2004 rpc.rwalld(1M)
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