Re: finger, as it pertains to mail
On Monday, December 03, 2001 8:40 AM, nfurman@jlink.net wrote:
> I recently did a large mail upgrade and installed a new mail server that
> incorporates mail hashing (i.e /var/spool/u/s/user). As expected, my
> finger command on any user now reports that the user has no mail. Is this
> an actual finger problem, or does something have to be defined in the
> users home directory? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
The default finger program uses the _PATH_MAILDIR #define from
<paths.h>, which is /var/mail, to locate a user's mailfile. There is no
logic or hook to find an alternate location.
There are configurable finger daemons packaged in Deb, one of them
(cfingerd?) lets you run arbitrary scripts.
Hope it helps,
-=greg
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