Re: portsentry and ffingerd problems.

[Matthew John Palmer <nospam [at] uow.edu.au>]

On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Barrie Bremner wrote:

>  It all seems OK, except for the fact that I get this message in
> /var/log/messages every 10 minutes:
> 
>  Mar  5 18:46:02 shaitan inetd[13739]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already
> in use

It's obviously the result of something using the port which auth wants to
use.  I've never used the program you spoke of, so perhaps it's holding onto
the auth port?

>  The other problem is ffingerd, which is a replacement for the standard
> finger that I`m playing with.
>  I am always getting the following message in answer to a finger
> request:
> 
> [baz@shaitan baz]$ finger baz [at] shaitan
> [shaitan]
> That user does not want to be fingered.
> 
> 
>  Now, that should only happen if I had a ~/.nofinger file - which I
> don`t.
> 
>  Ideas anyone? Or even suggestions of a tried and tested finger
> replacement.

I've never had any problems with the standard figerd which comes with Linux. 
As for problems in yours, that's an issue between you and it's
documentation, I think, unless someone else on the list has experience with
it.

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