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- From: cs170501@vtaix.cc.vt.edu (Matthew C. Mead)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: 'w' returns "can't get namelist" and a few other questions
- Summary: Problem with 'w', how to run fingerd, and mail config
- Keywords: w fingerd mail config
- Message-ID: <11262@vtserf.cc.vt.edu>
- Date: 20 Jan 93 23:50:12 GMT
- Sender: usenet@vtserf.cc.vt.edu
- Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
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- Hi. Thanks to all who replied to me with mail about how to get slip working
- it seems to be working great! I think that somehow I messed up one of the
- files that the command 'w' uses or something, but am unsure. It always gets
- an error returning 'can't get namelist.' Any ideas? Also, I noticed that the
- finger daemon is not part of the standard setup and does not run on my machine.
- Could someone point me on how to get that working? I found a file called
- 'fingerd' in /usr/obj.... somewhere...but was unsure if that was it since it
- doesn't seem to be set executable. My local mail seems to work fine, but I
- can't mail to a remote system, and for my last question, why would gcc 2.3.3
- respond to a compile attempt saying it did not recognize a '-lang-c' flag?
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- Thanks in advance to any responses!
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- Matthew C. Mead
- cs170501@vtaix.cc.vt.edu
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