From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 14 9: 5:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C69A14A27 for ; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 09:05:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA16588 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 18:04:56 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 18:04:56 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199911141704.SAA16588@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rwhod permissions question, please Organization: Administration Heim 3 Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stan Brown wrote in list.freebsd-questions: > Nov 14 10:07:54 koala.fas.com rwhod[135]: whod.brown: Permission denied > [...] > One other data point is that if I do an ruptime on koala, it does not > report statistics for brown. Both problems are caused by the same thing. make sure that the directory /var/rwho and all files in it are writable by user "daemon" or group "daemon" (because rwhod runs as user and group "daemon"). It should be something like this: drwxrwxr-x 2 bin daemon 512 Nov 11 18:02 . drwxr-xr-x 18 root wheel 512 Dec 18 1998 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 daemon daemon 300 Nov 14 18:00 whod.dorifer -rw-r--r-- 1 daemon daemon 84 Nov 11 23:26 whod.kartanin -rw-r--r-- 1 daemon daemon 84 Nov 14 18:02 whod.tekener The directopry is writable by group daemon, and the files all belong to user daemon (and are writable by it). Also, make sure that rwhod is really running as "daemon". The following command will tell you: ps -aux | grep rwho Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message