Re: Finger Command

[Martin F Krafft <madduck@madduck.net>]

also sprach Nick Furman (on Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:50:30PM -0400):
> Can someone tell me where finger gets it's information on the system, when
> it displays when the user last checked their email.  I guess it reads
> /var/spool/mail/(user) for the date of mail last received, but I am
> unclear where it gets the information for when the user last checked mail.

it's either mtime or atime of the inode of that user's mailbox.

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