change in finger?

[Ed Greshko]

On 10/05/2012 10:10 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 14:33 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> For some strange reason I decided to type "finger" in a ssh session connected to an F18 test system.
>>
>> [egreshko at localhost ~]$ finger
>> No one logged on.
>>
>> Was the result.  Same thing after logging in under KDE and executing in konsole.
> It...might help if you said what you were expecting? What's the 'change'
> to which you're referring?

That's true....

On an F17 system, logged in as a KDE user....

[egreshko at meimei ~]$ finger
Login     Name         Tty      Idle  Login Time   Office     Office Phone   Host
egreshko  Ed Greshko  *:0             Oct  3 13:55                           (:0)
egreshko  Ed Greshko  *pts/0          Oct  3 13:55                           (:0)
egreshko  Ed Greshko  *pts/1    4:16  Oct  3 13:55                           (:0)
egreshko  Ed Greshko  *pts/2      1d  Oct  3 13:55                           (:0)
egreshko  Ed Greshko   pts/3      1d  Oct  3 13:55                           (:0)

That is pretty much the way I always remember....

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