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From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To: Stan Brown <stanb@netcom.com>
Cc: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: rwhod permissions question, please
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Stan Brown wrote:

> 	Lately I have started noticing the follwing errors in the syslog of the
> 	2.8 machine:
> 
> 	Nov 14 10:07:54 koala.fas.com rwhod[135]: whod.brown: Permission denied
> 
> 	koala is the 2.8 achine, and brown is a 3.3 machine. i am also geting
> 	similar error messages relating to some non FreeBSD machines on the
> 	network.
> 
> 	I can rlogin from koala to brown & vice versa. 
> 
> 	So what is this message trying to tell me? Which machine is denying
> 	which permission? And why? How do I correct this?
> 
> 	One other data point is that if I do an ruptime on koala, it does not
> 	report statistics for brown.

Check the permissions of the files under /var/rwho. Here's what I have, and
it works fine:

ben@strontium:~$ ls -la /var/rwho
total 5
drwxrwxr-x   2 root    daemon  512 Oct 16 02:30 ./
drwxr-xr-x  18 root    wheel   512 Oct 16 21:48 ../
-rw-r--r--   1 daemon  daemon   84 Nov 14 17:03 whod.magnesium
-rw-r--r--   1 daemon  daemon  108 Nov 14 17:03 whod.scientia
-rw-r--r--   1 daemon  daemon  156 Nov 14 17:05 whod.strontium

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