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Re: [PLUG] Fw: .plan files
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how about making sure that the finger server is running.
in your inetd.conf uncomment this line. (remove the #)
#finger stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.fingerd
that should fix it unless your isp blocks the port.
N-Tropy
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Michael C. Toren wrote:
> > I want to be cool like those game developers and have a .plan file that can
> > be fingered from outside. Right now the .plan is something i can only
> > finger see when I am logged in under my account. i have tried changing file
> > permissions, but to no avail. i cant find any help files on this subject.
> > Any suggestions or links? Do people still use .plan files or is this
> > archaic?
>
> In addition to checking that your .plan file has permissions of 644, also
> check and be sure that your home directory has permissions of 755 or 711.
>
> -mct
>
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