Telling Others About Yourself
If you are a new customer and ran the "whois" command with your login
name, you will likely see something like the following that lists for
customer jones:
world% whois jones
-User- --Full name-- Idle TTY -Console Location-
jones Terry A Jones 7 q82 annex (Virtual Terminal)
r4 annex (Virtual Terminal)
5 r18 annex (Virtual Terminal)
[142,142] ; Group: jones Shell: /bin/tcsh
Groups: jones
jones has no new mail, last read Wed 14-Dec-94 9:22PM
To change the information presented in the "Full name" field, use the
"chfn" command:
world% chfn
Changing real name for jones
Old name: Terry A Jones
New name: T. A. Jones
world% whois jones
-User- --Full name-- Idle TTY -Console Location-
jones . T. A. Jones q82 annex (Virtual Terminal)
6 r4 annex (Virtual Terminal)
20 r18 annex (Virtual Terminal)
[142,142] ; Group: jones Shell: /bin/tcsh
Groups: jones
jones has no new mail, last read Wed 14-Dec-94 9:22PM
Plan: (last modified Wed 14-Dec-94 9:33PM)
If you were interested in providing even more information about
yourself, such as your telephone number, office location and schedule,
you would need to create a .plan file in your home directory
containing this information. For example, jones' .plan file contains
his job description, so that if other customers issued a "whois jones"
command, the following would appear:
world% whois jones
-User- --Full name-- Idle TTY -Console Location-
jones . T. A. Jones q82 annex (Virtual Terminal)
6 r4 annex (Virtual Terminal)
20 r18 annex (Virtual Terminal)
[142,142] ; Group: jones Shell: /bin/tcsh
Groups: jones
jones has no new mail, last read Wed 14-Dec-94 9:22PM
Plan: (last modified Wed 14-Dec-94 9:33PM)
Adam L. Jones
Communications Specialist
ABCD Broadcoat Inc.
Cableville, MD 12335
Please note, you must provide "read" access to "other" for the .plan
file for this to work.
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