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Old 09-16-2001, 06:24 PM   #1
elconde
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Question My computer won't let anyone write to or finger me


My computer won't let anyone write to or finger me. When I'm on another machine and type

finger user@hostname.domainname,
I get the message
finger: connect: Connection refused.

How do i fix this?


Thanks in advance,
Robert
 
  


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