From lavondes@tidtest.total.fr Tue Aug 27 02:36:26 1996 Received: from pegase.total.fr (pegase.total.fr [146.249.152.2]) by suburbia.net (8.7.4/Proff-950810) with SMTP id CAA04834 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 1996 02:34:38 +1000 Received: from tidtest.total.fr (tidtest.total.fr [146.249.165.73]) by pegase.total.fr (8.6.8/8.6.6) with SMTP id SAA07448; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 18:33:21 +0200 Received: by tidtest.total.fr (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA08151; Mon, 26 Aug 96 18:31:32 +0200 Message-Id: <9608261631.AA08151@tidtest.total.fr> To: *Hobbit* Cc: best-of-security@suburbia.net Subject: Re: BoS: cfingerd In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 25 Aug 1996 14:34:14 EDT." <199608251834.OAA05474@narq.avian.org> X-Cuse: "The dog ate my network" Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 18:31:31 +0100 From: Michel Lavondes In message <199608251834.OAA05474@narq.avian.org>, *Hobbit* writes: > Let me take this opportunity for an unsolicited advertisement for my > finger daemon: > > static char buf[80]; > main () { > fgets (buf, 70, stdin); > printf ("canned message...\n"); > fflush (stdout); sleep (1); > exit (0); > } > > It comes with no support whatsoever, although you can probably purchase > support from your nearest consultant for well over $100 per hour. How about "cat /canned/text" ? True, it doesn't read the input packet, but I don't think that's needed. And you get support direct from your Unix vendor provides (assuming they provide any). Just my $0.02 Michel Lavondes (lavondes@tidtest.total.fr) #include Governments are guilty until proved innocent