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- From: ACCESS@krdc.int.alcan.ca (Shawn Allin - Alcan KRDC Computer Services)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
- Subject: Is RWHOD working as advertised?
- Message-ID: <34735@adm.brl.mil>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 14:42:41 GMT
- Sender: news@adm.brl.mil
- Lines: 34
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- Date sent: 17-DEC-1992 09:16:34
-
- Hi there,
-
- Recently, we fired up a RWHOD server on our Vax that was ported by Terry
- Kennedy. We were perplexed at first by the seeming randomness of which
- machines it saw and which it didn't. I've tracked it down to the fact that
- the SGI's are broadcasting the information with the fully qualified domain
- name, rather than just the host name portion as the man pages says it
- should. This causes the Vax to attempt to write files of the form:
- rwho.host.domain.name
-
- which of couse is invalid under VMS. As I stated earlier, the man pages
- for RWHOD indicate that it gets the hostname of the machine with
- gethostname. Here is a quote from the man page:
-
- "The host name included is that returned by the gethostname(2) system call,
- with any trailing domain name omitted."
-
- I know that I can probably fix the VMS side to do exactly this, but I'd
- prefer it to be fixed on the SGI's if indeed it is a bug.
-
- We're running 4.0.5 if it makes any difference.
-
- Thanks,
-
- Shawn Allin
- Alcan International Ltd.,
- P.O. Box 8400,
- Kingston, Ont.,
- Canada K7L 5L9
- (613) 541-2178
-
- ACCESS@KINGSTON.CAN.INT.Alcan.CA
-