Re: finger @finger.kernel.org -> Connection refused

[Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>]

On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

>
>> It appears to have been dead for awhile now, did I miss something?
>> One of my scripts uses this functionality, which now appears
>> dead/disabled/offline.
>>
>> Can anyone provide an update?
>
> kernel.org front page sayz:
>
> Aug 21, 2003: Please don't use finger.kernel.org for any sort of
> automatic monitoring. The number of automatic bots hitting this port is
> causing the finger daemon to shut down more often than not. The same
> information is available from http://www.kernel.org/kdist/finger_banner.
>
> ;-)
>
>
> Jan
> -- 
> ft: http://freshmeat.net/p/chaostables/
>

Thanks!

$ wget -q -O- http://www.kernel.org/kdist/finger_banner
The latest stable version of the Linux kernel is:           2.6.20
The latest snapshot for the stable Linux kernel tree is:    2.6.20-git1
The latest 2.4 version of the Linux kernel is:              2.4.34.1
The latest 2.2 version of the Linux kernel is:              2.2.26
The latest prepatch for the 2.2 Linux kernel tree is:       2.2.27-rc2
The latest -mm patch to the stable Linux kernels is:        2.6.20-rc6-mm3

Wget it is.

Justin.