This is a trivial finger server that reveals only very limited amounts of information.
If you got it from git:
autoreconf -si
In any case:
./configure
make
sudo make install
At this point you should be able to do man trivial.fingerd.
Add the following line to your /etc/inetd.conf:
finger stream tcp nowait nobody.nogroup /usr/local/sbin/trivial.fingerd /usr/local/sbin/trivial.fingerd
Then restart or reload inetd.
TODO
make install will install a suitable plist into
/Library/LaunchDaemons. To enable it you must use launchctl:
$ sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/uk.org.greenend.fingerd.plist
To disable it do the same but with unload:
$ sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/uk.org.greenend.fingerd.plist
make uninstall will also perform this step.
Please report bugs to Richard Kettlewell rjk@greenend.org.uk.
Copyright (C) 2010 Richard Kettlewell
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