Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422680AbXBHXiO (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 18:38:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422636AbXBHXiN (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 18:38:13 -0500 Received: from lucidpixels.com ([75.144.35.66]:53006 "EHLO lucidpixels.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422680AbXBHXiM (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 18:38:12 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 18:38:11 -0500 (EST) From: Justin Piszcz X-X-Sender: jpiszcz@p34.internal.lan To: Jan Engelhardt cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: finger @finger.kernel.org -> Connection refused In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1386 Lines: 45 On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> It appears to have been dead for awhile now, did I miss something? >> One of my scripts uses this functionality, which now appears >> dead/disabled/offline. >> >> Can anyone provide an update? > > kernel.org front page sayz: > > Aug 21, 2003: Please don't use finger.kernel.org for any sort of > automatic monitoring. The number of automatic bots hitting this port is > causing the finger daemon to shut down more often than not. The same > information is available from http://www.kernel.org/kdist/finger_banner. > > ;-) > > > Jan > -- > ft: http://freshmeat.net/p/chaostables/ > Thanks! $ wget -q -O- http://www.kernel.org/kdist/finger_banner The latest stable version of the Linux kernel is: 2.6.20 The latest snapshot for the stable Linux kernel tree is: 2.6.20-git1 The latest 2.4 version of the Linux kernel is: 2.4.34.1 The latest 2.2 version of the Linux kernel is: 2.2.26 The latest prepatch for the 2.2 Linux kernel tree is: 2.2.27-rc2 The latest -mm patch to the stable Linux kernels is: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3 Wget it is. Justin. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/