11-01-2019
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amity
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As per my understanding we don't even need to run above kill command as finger command will only run when it is invoked through the command line as it happened when command got invoked due to that inetd command will reread the /etc/inetd.conf file and run the finger daemon and if I put the # in front of finger line in /etc/inetd.conf then it should not be invoked. But it is getting invoked. Further same thing is happring in Solaris 9 as well.
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You need to restart or reload the inetd/xinetd process so that it reads the new inetd.conf or inetd.d files.. You can also give a kill -HUP to the inetd/xinetd process.
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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