Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-nettool
This is a duplicated entry for the gnome upstream bug#611408 Simon Paillard [reporter] 2010-02-28 15:20:55 UTC Hello, This has been reported intially in http://bugs.debian.org/550991 Remote finger no longer works. It seems the switch from finger to pinky caused a regression in finger feature. > gnome-nettool's finger functionality does not work. If I try to finger > b...@crustytoothpaste.ath.cx or a...@monk.mit.edu (or anyone else, for > that matter), it sends no packets, and produces only the output: > > Login Name TTY Idle When Where This seems to be a regression since 2.22.1-1, after the switch to pinky as finger program, introduced after the resolution of: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=549588 commit a9eaa17cdae8563e19e1afc2aebe64e534a4da85 2008-12-04 02:56 German Poo-Caamano Fixed #549588. Try to use pinky instead of finger. Use finger as fallback. $ pinky a...@monk.mit.edu Login Name TTY Idle When Where It doesn't seem pinky is able to do the same job as finger does. ** Affects: gnome-nettool Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Affects: oem-priority Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: gnome-nettool (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #611408 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=611408 ** Also affects: gnome-nettool via https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=611408 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Also affects: oem-priority Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-nettool in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/766862 Title: remote finger no longer work, local finger limited (pinky vs finger) -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
