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From: Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
To: Todd Kover <kovert@umiacs.umd.edu>
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Subject: Re: rwhod/ruptime broken? 
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On Wed, 10 Jan 1996, Todd Kover wrote:
> 
> If I recall correctly, you're running into the upper limit in the size
> of a datagram, so after a certain number of ttys, it just gets
> truncated.  I don't believe this is easily fixed to be arbitrary
> without breaking interaction with other versions of rwho...

    Sounds like a reasonable explanation.  I guess I'll just write a
little script to poll the other machines with an rsh to get the real
numbers then.
--
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org)
Systems Administrator, Internex Online Inc.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"