12-01-2009
finger is ready to try to match stuff in the gecos field and it marches to its own beat with respect to user names. You have concealed the user's real name and that is probably what is wrong. Is the is user name a mix of 8 characters or less of all lower case letters or digits?
10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting
1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Thanks PxT answered my "compare two files"question very quick and neat!!:-)
I have a question about .history file I couldn't find any satisfied answer from book.
1. This file was created automatically when you set up user's environment or you have to use a command to create it or you... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: b5fnpct
4 Replies
2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
is there a way to show information on all the users on your system? when i use 'finger' is only shows users names and info who are currently on the system. is there a way to show all accounts? thanx! (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: djatwork
5 Replies
3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
hi, .sh_history keeps a list of past commands that we entered. but it has a limit and where do we set this limit. thanks. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: yls177
1 Replies
4. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi Friends,
We are currently 5 people using same Unix login-id on different terminals, .sh_history file contains list of commands typed by all 5 peoples(commands history) with the below list :
$tail .sh_history
ls -ltr
pwd
cd ..
ls -ltr
clear
cd temp
more kk.lst
Now my question... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: krishna
9 Replies
5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
All,
I had a request to delete filed under a directory that was 35 days old . And they asked me to scedule it in CRON . I have done that .
I have use find and delete with mtime to perfrom this task .
But my script is not deleting this .cshrc,.exrc,.login,.profile,.sh_history file... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: arunkumar_mca
1 Replies
6. AIX
hi
what's the difference between .sh_history and sh_history for root user?
thanks
itik (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: itik
1 Replies
7. AIX
Hello Everyone:
Does anyone know how I will setup my account to put timestamp in my .sh_history? I do not hold the root account. I am using AIX 5 and ksh shell. I tried every solution I can find in the internet but nothing seems to work OR I am just applying those in the wrong way. Anyone knows... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Orbix
4 Replies
8. AIX
I reviewed a couple old post where shockneck posted the use of the EXTENDED_HISTORY=ON variable to place a timestamp in the .sh_history file when using ksh and using the fc -t command to read the .sh_history file.
The fc command reads my history file. As an admin I would like to be able to read... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: juredd1
5 Replies
9. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi,
I'm on a linux machine. But I see that sh_history is not updated since february 15. How is it possible ?
Thank you.
uname -a
Linux MYSERVER 2.6.18-194.11.3.el5PAE #1 SMP Mon Aug 23 15:57:10 EDT 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
ls -al
-rw------- 1 oracle dba 3644 fév 15 09:28... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: big123456
10 Replies
10. AIX
Hi,
I can't get all the enties of AIX .sh_history in email. only first entry of the history is emailed after executing the below code.
mail -s "History `date +%d-%m-%Y`" myemail@xyz.com <$HOME/.sh_history
Can anyone help? (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: m_raheelahmed
3 Replies
FINGER(1) General Commands Manual FINGER(1)
NAME
finger - user information lookup program
SYNOPSIS
finger [ options ] name ...
DESCRIPTION
By default finger lists the login name, full name, terminal name and write status (as a `*' before the terminal name if write permission is
denied), idle time, login time, and office location and phone number (if they are known) for each current UNIX user. (Idle time is minutes
if it is a single integer, hours and minutes if a ':' is present, or days and hours if a 'd' is present.)
A longer format also exists and is used by finger whenever a list of people's names is given. (Account names as well as first and last
names of users are accepted.) This format is multi-line, and includes all the information described above as well as the user's home
directory and login shell, any plan which the person has placed in the file .plan in their home directory, and the project on which they
are working from the file .project also in the home directory.
Finger may be used to lookup users on a remote machine. The format is to specify the user as ``user@host.'' If the user name is left off,
the standard format listing is provided on the remote machine.
Finger options include:
-m Match arguments only on user name.
-l Force long output format.
-p Suppress printing of the .plan files
-s Force short output format.
FILES
/etc/utmp who file
/etc/passwd for users names, offices, ...
/usr/adm/lastlog last login times
~/.plan plans
~/.project projects
SEE ALSO
chfn(1), w(1), who(1).
AUTHOR
Earl T. Cohen
BUGS
Only the first line of the .project file is printed.
There is no way to pass arguments to the remote machine as finger uses an internet standard port.
4th Berkeley Distribution May 10, 1986 FINGER(1)