From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 8 7:37: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from federation.addy.com (addy.com [208.11.142.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0480637B41B for ; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 07:37:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jim@localhost) by federation.addy.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA57801; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 10:37:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jim@federation.addy.com) Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 10:37:05 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Sander To: Glenn Johnson Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: strange problem with rwhod In-Reply-To: <20011207165744.A60105@node7.cluster.srrc.usda.gov> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > But node7 does not update a /var/rwho/whod.node7 file. Obviously I can't be sure, but my guess is that your /var/rwhod directory is not writeable by 'daemon' (the user rwhod runs under) and thus it can't create the file. A one-time solution is to create the file manually... 'cd /var/rwhod; touch whod.node7; chown daemon whod.node7' Of course if you add/remove machines a lot, this is somewhat of a drag. You could also change the directory owner/group/perms in such a way as to allow 'daemon' write access. (if that's appropriate in your case) Personally, I changed group ownership of that dir to daemon and made it g+w and that seems to work for me. -=Jim=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message