If you use finger userid |grep On Since you're likely to get a diagnostic message like:
And since your output shows that the output from the lines you're trying to match doesn't have Since capitalized, even if you had quoted it correctly you still wouldn't get any output. Perhaps you meant:
which could give you several lines of output for the specified user.
If someone's last login time was more than six months ago, why does it matter what time of day it was for a report like this?
For someone still logged in, unless you are keeping systems up for more than a year and a half without rebooting, the year should be obvious as long as the date the report was generated is included in the report.
This is my senario.....
The user enters a userid into linux.
((I have have already scripted the command to read this userid.))
I need help in writing the script so It reads the userID and in conjuction w/ the finger command displays to the user "no plan" on the screen (so the user reads/sees... (4 Replies)
I'm trying to clean up my server and I have the list of some "special" users stored on the text file like this
Now I want to write a shell script to finger all of them so I can have some kind of ideas who they are but here comes the problem....I completely forgot how to do it with shell... (3 Replies)
Hello all,
Here is what I am trying to do. If a user exist, then send an echo "EXIST" or else "DOES NOT EXIST". (under HP-UX)
Kind of:
#!/usr/bin/sh
USER=mylogin
finger $USER
if $? = 0
then
echo "EXIST""
else
echo "DOES NOT EXIST"
fi (10 Replies)
Hi,
iam using sunsolaris.
when you type finger command -- it dispalys information about local and remote users.
but here it shows as can't stat /dev/gold:8664
can anybody help what is the solution for this error.
previously the output came.
thanks,
shan (1 Reply)
Hello all,
my unix is bash based and the finger command output is:
Login Name Tty Idle LoginTime Office
amos.john Amos John pts/26 1 Dec 5 16:18 (77.100.22.07)
What am trying to achieve is extract the Login (amos.john) and Name (Amos John) from this output without using awk or sed.
... (1 Reply)
I want to know the correct version of how i should use the finger command in this example below.(os is debian lenny)
(nymserver.pl is located in /home/nymserv directory.)
the two versions are :
(in/etc/inetd.conf)
finger stream tcp nowait nymuser /usr/nym/nymserv nymserv... (3 Replies)
Hi
Does anyone know if there is anyway of doing the finger command for all user id's in my enviroment. What I need to obtain is the full names of all users on the system.
I know if i do the finger command with no arguments it will list users currently logged in, but i need all users...
... (2 Replies)
how to extract user machine name for current terminal using finger command
below command gives machinename for all session , is it possible to filter it to only currernt terminal ?
finger -b -p $LOGNAME | grep from (12 Replies)
$ finger yeti
Login: yeti Name: yeti
Directory: /arpa/tz/y/yeti Shell: /bin/ksh
On since Wed Apr 2 15:24 (UTC) on pts/149
Mail last read Mon Mar 31 11:08 2014 (UTC)
No Plan.
Hi there,
I am trying to... (2 Replies)
Hi
I need to disable finger & telnet command in solaris 8
I have put the # infront of finger and telnet line in /etc/inetd.conf file. Further I have run the below command
kill -1 <process id of inetd >
But when I am running finger command it is till giving information for remote machine... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: amity
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
net::finger
Finger(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Finger(3pm)NAME
Net::Finger - a Perl implementation of a finger client.
SYNOPSIS
use Net::Finger;
# You can put the response in a scalar...
$response = finger('corbeau@execpc.com');
unless ($response) {
warn "Finger problem: $Net::Finger::error";
}
# ...or an array.
@lines = finger('corbeau@execpc.com', 1);
DESCRIPTION
Net::Finger is a simple, straightforward implementation of a finger client in Perl -- so simple, in fact, that writing this documentation
is almost unnecessary.
This module has one automatically exported function, appropriately entitled "finger()". It takes two arguments:
o A username or email address to finger. (Yes, it does support the vaguely deprecated "user@host@host" syntax.) If you need to use a port
other than the default finger port(79), you can specify it like so: "username@hostname:port".
o (Optional) A boolean value for verbosity. True == verbose output. If you don't give it a value, it defaults to false. Actually, whether
this output will differ from the non-verbose version at all is up to the finger server.
"finger()" is context-sensitive. If it's used in a scalar context, it will return the server's response in one large string. If it's used
in an array context, it will return the response as a list, line by line. If an error of some sort occurs, it returns undef and puts a
string describing the error into the package global variable $Net::Finger::error. If you'd like to see some excessively verbose output
describing every step "finger()" takes while talking to the other server, put a true value in the variable $Net::Finger::debug.
Here's a sample program that implements a very tiny, stripped-down finger(1):
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use Net::Finger;
use Getopt::Std;
use vars qw($opt_l);
getopts('l');
$x = finger($ARGV[0], $opt_l);
if ($x) {
print $x;
} else {
warn "$0: error: $Net::Finger::error
";
}
BUGS
o Doesn't yet do non-blocking requests. (FITNR. Really.)
o Doesn't do local requests unless there's a finger server running on localhost.
o Contrary to the name's implications, this module involves no teledildonics.
AUTHOR
Dennis Taylor, <corbeau@execpc.com>
SEE ALSO perl(1), finger(1), RFC 1288.
perl v5.8.8 2001-11-02 Finger(3pm)