** Attachment added: "debdiff incorporating simple finger patch." https://bugs.launchpad.net/oem-priority/oneiric/+bug/766862/+attachment/2470137/+files/patch
** Description changed: + SRU Justificaiton + ----------------- + + Impact: + + This update allows remote finger to work if a proper finger client is + installed. + + Fix: + + A minor code change that has gnome-nettool attempt to use the 'finger' + before falling back to 'pinky' instead of vice-versa. + + Patch: + + The changes have been applied to gnome-nettool git master branch in + commit 89e0bb648e9e8bd96a5eb5e0284abf74fc244c95. I've attached a + debdiff in comment #5. + + Regression Potential: + + There should be very little potential for regression. + + Test Case: + + * Install finger (sudo apt-get install finger) + * Run gnome-nettool + * Select the 'finger' tab. + * Enter the hostname of a machine running a finger server and the username of a properly configured account. + + gnome-nettool should display the finger information returned by the + remote host. + + ------------------------ + + 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 > [email protected] or [email protected] (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 [email protected] Login Name TTY Idle When Where It doesn't seem pinky is able to do the same job as finger does. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/766862 Title: remote finger no longer work, local finger limited (pinky vs finger) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-nettool/+bug/766862/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
