On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 08:06:46PM +1200, Roger Brown wrote:
> finderd should be listed in /etc/inetd.conf
> 
> This is read by 'inetd' at boot and contains all the listening sockets,
> fingerd is only exec'd once an incoming connection arrives.
> 
> comment or delete out the offending line...
> 
> #finger    stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/libexec/fingerd  fingerd

It is, of course, also necessary to kill -HUP <inetd's pid> after
modifiying /etc/inetd.conf.

       ~ g r @ eclipsed.net