From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965660AbXBHXhH (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 18:37:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965667AbXBHXhG (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 18:37:06 -0500 Received: from tmailer.gwdg.de ([134.76.10.23]:42044 "EHLO tmailer.gwdg.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965660AbXBHXhE (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 18:37:04 -0500 Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 00:36:33 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Justin Piszcz cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: finger @finger.kernel.org -> Connection refused In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Report: Content analysis: 0.0 points, 6.0 required _SUMMARY_ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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/