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From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
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Subject: Re: Strange rwhod problem, one one machine
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In the last episode (Feb 03), stan said:
> 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"

Check the permissions on /var/rwho.  On my system, it's 

drwxrwxr-x   2 root    daemon  1536 Jan 31 03:01 ./

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	Dan Nelson
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