error executing finger

[Steve G. Casino]

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!

[RAC_1]

Does who command work???

Anil

[Steven E. Protter]

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

[Sundar_7 · Accepted solution]

Try this

# insf -e
# finger

[Sundar_7]

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.

[Steve G. Casino]

thanks to everybody for taking time to reply.

I tried Sundar's solution and it worked