From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 8 9:49: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dc-mx04.cluster1.charter.net (dc-mx04.cluster0.hsacorp.net [209.225.8.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7911A37B416 for ; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 09:49:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from [24.158.214.244] (HELO gforce.johnson.home) by dc-mx04.cluster1.charter.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.4.6) with ESMTP-TLS id 4584708; Sat, 08 Dec 2001 12:55:22 -0500 Received: (from glenn@localhost) by gforce.johnson.home (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fB8Hmv301790; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 11:48:57 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from glenn) Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 11:48:57 -0600 From: Glenn Johnson To: Jim Sander Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: strange problem with rwhod Message-ID: <20011208174857.GA1723@gforce.johnson.home> Mail-Followup-To: Glenn Johnson , Jim Sander , questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20011207165744.A60105@node7.cluster.srrc.usda.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i 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 On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 10:37:05AM -0500, Jim Sander wrote: > > 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. The permissions are correct. The whod files for all of the other hosts are being written properly to that directory. The only whod file not being updated is the one for itself. > 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. I tried this. The file never gets updated on this one host. All of the whod files for the other hosts are updated on the problem host and the whod file for the problem host is updated on all of the other hosts. It is very strange. Another bit of information. I have the rmonitor port installed and I am seeing the same behavior. In the case of rmonitor however, there are no status files being written. The rmonitor program updates its display as it gets responses from the hosts via the broadcast address (an rmonitor daemon process is started on each host). On node7 (the problem host) I get information from all hosts except node7. If I run rmonitor on any other host, I get information on all of the hosts, including node7. -- Glenn Johnson glennpj@charter.net gjohnson@srrc.ars.usda.gov To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message