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To: Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
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Subject: Re: rwhod/ruptime broken? 
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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 17:19:55 -0500
From: Todd Kover <kovert@umiacs.umd.edu>
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 > ruptime has been reporting 41 users for the past 6 minutes now, so
 > it isn't a matter of rwhod not having sent out updated information.

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...

-Todd