methyl - I have not seen a POSIX specification for finger stating that it reads any given file. However, it does read other accounting files. See above. On Solaris, finger reads /var/adm/utmpx. Read the man page.
Gogol - It looks like wtmp is being updated. last should work as methyl indicated but without the -R. There are also wtmpx entries on your system. wtmp is written to only if the file exists, and for you is not part of the picture for finger.
what does
Code:
ls -l /var/adm/utmp
show?
if you grep for your username in umtpx what do you get? -- if it works you will see a lot of garbage characters. If they trash the screen use the reset command.
Thanks PxT answered my "compare two files"question very quick and neat!!:-)
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uname -a
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ls -al
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Hi,
I can't get all the enties of AIX .sh_history in email. only first entry of the history is emailed after executing the below code.
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LEARN ABOUT MOJAVE
finger.conf
FINGER.CONF(5) BSD File Formats Manual FINGER.CONF(5)NAME
finger.conf --finger(1) alias configuration file
DESCRIPTION
The optional finger.conf file is used to provide aliases that can be fingered by local and network users. This may be useful where a user's
login name is not the same as their preferred mail address, or for providing virtual login names than can be fingered.
Lines beginning with ``#'' are comments. Other lines must consist of an alias name and a target name separated by a colon. A target name
should be either a user, a forward reference to another alias or the path of a world readable file.
Where an alias points to a file, the contents of that file will be displayed when the alias is fingered.
FILES
/etc/finger.conf finger(1) alias definition data base
EXAMPLES
# /etc/finger.conf alias definition file
#
# Format alias:(user|alias)
#
# Individual aliases
#
markk:mkn
john.smith:dev329
john:dev329
sue:/etc/finger/sue.txt
#
# Network status message
#
status:/usr/local/etc/status.txt
#
# Administrative redirects
#
root:admin
postmaster:admin
abuse:admin
#
# For the time being, 'sod' is sysadmin.
#
admin:sod
SEE ALSO finger(1)HISTORY
Support for the finger.conf file was submitted by Mark Knight <markk@knigma.org> and first appeared in FreeBSD 4.2.
BSD August 16, 2000 BSD