Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 13:00:49 -0500 From: stan <stanb@panix.com> To: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Strange rwhod problem, one one machine Message-ID: <20050203180049.GA16713@teddy.fas.com> In-Reply-To: <20050203172319.GA15316@teddy.fas.com> References: <20050203172319.GA15316@teddy.fas.com>
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On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 12:23:19PM -0500, stan wrote: > I have a bunch of FreeBSD 4.x machines at workk. Today I noticed that one > of the was getting lines like this in it's messages file: > > Feb 3 09:02:02 recdcsal rwhod[84]: whod.pnoc: Permission denied > Feb 3 09:02:04 recdcsal rwhod[84]: whod.pdns1: Permission denied > Feb 3 09:02:06 recdcsal rwhod[84]: whod.phfw1: Permission denied > > I am running rwhod on thia (and the other ) machines. Rebooting did not > cure the proble, and doing an rwho or ruptime on this machine results in > "no entries in /var/rwho" > > > Any sugestions as to where to start looking ofr the problem with this > machine? > Just to get the solutin in the archive. Turns out that the /var/rwho direcotry lacked the group write bit. chmoding this fixed the problem. -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
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