From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 3 18:00:51 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10E1416A4CE for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 18:00:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail3.panix.com (mail3.panix.com [166.84.1.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64BD843D31 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 18:00:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stanb@panix.com) Received: from brillig.panix.com (brillig.panix.com [166.84.1.76]) by mail3.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B886398190 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 13:00:49 -0500 (EST) Received: from teddy.fas.com (pcp08632294pcs.mplsnt01.sc.comcast.net [68.58.232.106]) by brillig.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E4C72AA10 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 13:00:49 -0500 (EST) Received: from stan by teddy.fas.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1CwlHd-0004Mx-00 for ; Thu, 03 Feb 2005 13:00:49 -0500 Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 13:00:49 -0500 From: stan To: Free BSD Questions list Message-ID: <20050203180049.GA16713@teddy.fas.com> Mail-Followup-To: Free BSD Questions list References: <20050203172319.GA15316@teddy.fas.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050203172319.GA15316@teddy.fas.com> X-Editor: gVim X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux X-Kernel-Version: 2.4.23 X-Uptime: 12:59:40 up 10 days, 23:30, 2 users, load average: 0.21, 0.13, 0.12 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: Stan Brown Subject: Re: Strange rwhod problem, one one machine X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 18:00:51 -0000 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