topic Re: error executing finger in Operating System - HP-UX

error executing finger

Steve G. Casino — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 15:00:04 GMT

Hi everyone

I'm trying to execute a finger command and got the following error:

finger: error STATing /dev/ttyp4

I executed this as a user and as root, no difference

I have no idea what this means. Can anobody help me? Thanks!

Re: error executing finger

RAC_1 — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 15:04:00 GMT

Does who command work???

Anil

Re: error executing finger

Steven E. Protter — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 15:13:31 GMT

Could be finger was disabled because it was a security hazard.

Please check /etc/inetd.conf and see if its commented out.

Also check your TERM variable.

SEP

Re: error executing finger

Sundar_7 — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 15:19:46 GMT

Try this

# insf -e
# finger

Re: error executing finger

Sundar_7 — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 15:21:28 GMT

disabling finger in /etc/inetd.conf doesnt have any affect on running finger locally in a node.

It looks like one of the user is logged on to the tty /dev/ttyp4 and the device file is no longer present in the system.

insf -e will recreate the device files for you and finger should work.

Re: error executing finger

Steve G. Casino — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 15:46:46 GMT

thanks to everybody for taking time to reply.

I tried Sundar's solution and it worked