remote finger

[Eddie Wyatt]

 > >   I was hoping that this site didn't hack these changes in.  If the hooks
 > >are already in the 'finger'ing system for this feature, what do I do to
 > >turn them on?
 > 
 > Eddie, are you sure that the remote user was notified? The message you
 > saw could have simply been in the user's ".plan" file! :-)

  As some others have pointed out to me directly, the behavour I observed
is probably an artifact of a humorous .plan.  Though it is not impossible
for finger to notify a users he is being fingered, hooks are not in
the protocol for determining who is doing the finger.


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Eddie Wyatt 				e-mail: edw at ius1.cs.cmu.edu