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Mon Apr 25 13:37:00 UTC 2011 Slackware 13.37 x86_64 stable is released! Thanks to everyone who pitched in on this release: the Slackware team, the folks producing upstream code, and linuxquestions.org for providing a great forum for collaboration and testing. The ISOs are off to be replicated, a 6 CD-ROM 32-bit set and a dual-sided 32-bit/64-bit x86/x86_64 DVD. Please consider supporting the Slackware project by picking up a copy from store.slackware.com. We're taking pre-orders now, and offer a discount if you sign up for a subscription. As always, thanks to the Slackware community for testing, suggestions, and feedback. :-) Have fun!
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<td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom">Chapter 13 Basic Network Commands</td>
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<h1 class="SECT1"><a id="BASIC-NETWORK-COMMANDS-FINGER"
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name="BASIC-NETWORK-COMMANDS-FINGER">13.4 <tt class="COMMAND">finger</tt></a></h1>
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<p><tt class="COMMAND">finger</tt>(1) will retrieve information about the specified user.
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You give finger a username or an email address and it will try to contact the necessary
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server and retrieve the username, office, telephone number, and other pieces of
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information. Here is an example:</p>
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<samp class="PROMPT">%</samp> <kbd class="USERINPUT">finger johnc@idsoftware.com</kbd>
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<p><tt class="COMMAND">finger</tt> can return the username, mail status, phone numbers,
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and files referred to as “dot plan” and “dot project”. Of course,
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the information returned varies with each <tt class="COMMAND">finger</tt> server. The one
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included with Slackware returns the following information by default:</p>
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<p>Username</p>
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<p>Room number</p>
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<p>Home phone number</p>
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<p>Work phone number</p>
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<p>Login status</p>
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<p>Email status</p>
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</li>
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<p>Contents of the <tt class="FILENAME">.plan</tt> file in the user's home directory</p>
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<li>
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<p>Contents of the <tt class="FILENAME">.project</tt> file in the user's home
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directory</p>
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</ul>
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<p>The first four items can be set with the <tt class="COMMAND">chfn</tt> command. It
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stores those values in the <tt class="FILENAME">/etc/passwd</tt> file. To change the
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information in your <tt class="FILENAME">.plan</tt> or <tt class="FILENAME">.project</tt>
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file, just edit them with your favorite text editor. They must reside in your home
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directory and must be called <tt class="FILENAME">.plan</tt> and <tt
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class="FILENAME">.project</tt>.</p>
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<p>Many users <tt class="COMMAND">finger</tt> their own account from a remote machine to
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quickly see if they have new email. Or, you can see a user's plan or current project.</p>
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<p>Like many commands, <tt class="COMMAND">finger</tt> has options. Check the man page
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for more information on what special options you can use.</p>
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accesskey="H">Home</a></td>
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accesskey="N">Next</a></td>
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accesskey="U">Up</a></td>
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<td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"><tt class="COMMAND">telnet</tt></td>
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