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| author |   Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2009-08-26 10:00:38 -0500 |
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| committer |   Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2018-05-31 22:41:17 +0200 |
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Slackware 13.0slackware-13.0
Wed Aug 26 10:00:38 CDT 2009
Slackware 13.0 x86_64 is released as stable! Thanks to everyone who
helped make this release possible -- see the RELEASE_NOTES for the
credits. The ISOs are off to the replicator. This time it will be a
6 CD-ROM 32-bit set and a dual-sided 32-bit/64-bit x86/x86_64 DVD.
We're taking pre-orders now at store.slackware.com. Please consider
picking up a copy to help support the project. Once again, thanks to
the entire Slackware community for all the help testing and fixing
things and offering suggestions during this development cycle.
As always, have fun and enjoy! -P.
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diff --git a/slackbook/html/basic-network-commands-finger.html b/slackbook/html/basic-network-commands-finger.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..08eca57c6 --- /dev/null +++ b/slackbook/html/basic-network-commands-finger.html @@ -0,0 +1,132 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> +<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> +<head> +<meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy, see www.w3.org" /> +<title>finger</title> +<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7" /> +<link rel="HOME" title="Slackware Linux Essentials" href="index.html" /> +<link rel="UP" title="Basic Network Commands" href="basic-network-commands.html" /> +<link rel="PREVIOUS" title="DNS Tools" href="basic-network-commands-dns.html" /> +<link rel="NEXT" title="telnet" href="basic-network-commands-telnet.html" /> +<link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="docbook.css" /> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> +</head> +<body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" +alink="#0000FF"> +<div class="NAVHEADER"> +<table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" +cellspacing="0"> +<tr> +<th colspan="3" align="center">Slackware Linux Essentials</th> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom"><a href="basic-network-commands-dns.html" +accesskey="P">Prev</a></td> +<td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom">Chapter 13 Basic Network Commands</td> +<td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom"><a +href="basic-network-commands-telnet.html" accesskey="N">Next</a></td> +</tr> +</table> + +<hr align="LEFT" width="100%" /> +</div> + +<div class="SECT1"> +<h1 class="SECT1"><a id="BASIC-NETWORK-COMMANDS-FINGER" +name="BASIC-NETWORK-COMMANDS-FINGER">13.4 <tt class="COMMAND">finger</tt></a></h1> + +<p><tt class="COMMAND">finger</tt>(1) will retrieve information about the specified user. +You give finger a username or an email address and it will try to contact the necessary +server and retrieve the username, office, telephone number, and other pieces of +information. Here is an example:</p> + +<table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0" width="100%"> +<tr> +<td> +<pre class="SCREEN"> +<samp class="PROMPT">%</samp> <kbd class="USERINPUT">finger johnc@idsoftware.com</kbd> +</pre> +</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<p><tt class="COMMAND">finger</tt> can return the username, mail status, phone numbers, +and files referred to as “dot plan” and “dot project”. Of course, +the information returned varies with each <tt class="COMMAND">finger</tt> server. The one +included with Slackware returns the following information by default:</p> + +<ul> +<li> +<p>Username</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p>Room number</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p>Home phone number</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p>Work phone number</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p>Login status</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p>Email status</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p>Contents of the <tt class="FILENAME">.plan</tt> file in the user's home directory</p> +</li> + +<li> +<p>Contents of the <tt class="FILENAME">.project</tt> file in the user's home +directory</p> +</li> +</ul> + +<p>The first four items can be set with the <tt class="COMMAND">chfn</tt> command. It +stores those values in the <tt class="FILENAME">/etc/passwd</tt> file. To change the +information in your <tt class="FILENAME">.plan</tt> or <tt class="FILENAME">.project</tt> +file, just edit them with your favorite text editor. They must reside in your home +directory and must be called <tt class="FILENAME">.plan</tt> and <tt +class="FILENAME">.project</tt>.</p> + +<p>Many users <tt class="COMMAND">finger</tt> their own account from a remote machine to +quickly see if they have new email. Or, you can see a user's plan or current project.</p> + +<p>Like many commands, <tt class="COMMAND">finger</tt> has options. Check the man page +for more information on what special options you can use.</p> +</div> + +<div class="NAVFOOTER"> +<hr align="LEFT" width="100%" /> +<table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" +cellspacing="0"> +<tr> +<td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"><a href="basic-network-commands-dns.html" +accesskey="P">Prev</a></td> +<td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="index.html" +accesskey="H">Home</a></td> +<td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"><a href="basic-network-commands-telnet.html" +accesskey="N">Next</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">DNS Tools</td> +<td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="basic-network-commands.html" +accesskey="U">Up</a></td> +<td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"><tt class="COMMAND">telnet</tt></td> +</tr> +</table> +</div> +</body> +</html> + |