finger @finger.kernel.org -> Connection refused

finger @finger.kernel.org -> Connection refused

[Justin Piszcz]

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?

Thanks,

Justin.

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

[Kyle McMartin]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 06:27:17PM -0500, Justin Piszcz 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.
> 

Why not use this instead?
http://www.kernel.org/kdist/finger_banner

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

[Andi Kleen]

Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> writes:

> On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 06:27:17PM -0500, Justin Piszcz 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.
> > 
> 
> Why not use this instead?
> http://www.kernel.org/kdist/finger_banner

It also out of date. We're at git4 now and it shows git1

-Andi

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

[Kyle McMartin]

On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:50:51PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 06:27:17PM -0500, Justin Piszcz 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.
> > > 
> > 
> > Why not use this instead?
> > http://www.kernel.org/kdist/finger_banner
> 
> It also out of date. We're at git4 now and it shows git1
> 

Looks up to date to me...

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-git4
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

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

[Jan Engelhardt]

> 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/

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

[Justin Piszcz]

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.