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- From: maschepe@THAMA1.APGEA.ARMY.MIL ("Michael A. Schepers")
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid
- Subject: ruptime and rwho not working as expected
- Message-ID: <9209151115.aa01981@thama1.apgea.army.mil>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 15:15:26 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- Organization: The Internet
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- Hi Netters,
-
- I have a strange problem occuring on a Pyramid MIS4 that I can't
- seem to resolve. I have contacted Pyramid support, but, they have
- not been able to resolve the problem yet. I thought it might be a
- good idea to post this question and see if anyone else has a
- similar experience. Thanks in advance for your help.
-
- Problem using "ruptime". Ruptime reports invalid statistics on
- remote host condition. All other hosts on the immediate net are
- reported as being down, when they are actually up and running. The
- ruptime command on the other hosts report correctly concerning
- other hosts as well as our Pyramid. Although not all these hosts
- contain a complete listing of everyone on the immediate net.
-
- I got a call back from Pyramid Technical Support on the problem we
- are having with the ARP command an how it is affecting the function
- of the ruptime command. Their first suggestion was to restore a
- version of the /usr/etc/arp binary prior to our noticing of the
- problem. They suspected a corrupt binary. I did this, but the
- result was the same.
-
- They then decided to look at the source code for arp. In doing so,
- they discovered that there existed a hard coded limit that was set
- too low for our system and network configuration. They told me
- that they will modify the binary and ship us the patch to see if it
- solves our problem...we'll see.
-
- I then contacted a friend who has access to a another Pyramid. I
- asked her to send me the output of several commands. The
- configuration of Pyramid #2 parallels that of my Pyramid (same OS
- version/level and both are running C2 security). All the commands
- on Pyramid #2 produce the expected results.
-
- --------------
- Mike,
-
- I ran the ruptime on one of the APGNET Pyramids. It
- appears to be working to me!
-
- AWard
-
- apg-9> wc -l /etc/hosts
- 7873 /etc/hosts
-
- apg-9> ruptime
- apg-10 up 7:30, 5 users, load 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
- apg-12 up 7:33, 1 user, load 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
- apg-13 up 4+22:55, 6 users, load 0.07, 0.19, 0.17
- apg-9 up 3+21:43, 21 users, load 0.29, 0.39, 0.34
- apg-emh5 up 6:56, 6 users, load 1.72, 0.90, 0.56
- apg-emh6 up 6:46, 1 user, load 0.61, 0.21, 0.15
- apg-9>
-
- --------------
-
- I replaced the arp and ruptime binaries, but ruptime still does not
- produce correct information; however, arp operates corectly.
-
- I then got a copy of the rwho daemon (/etc/rwhod) from apg-9 to
- replace the rwhod on thama1. This also did not produce the desired
- results. The ruptime command still reports incorrectly.
-
- If anyone can point me in the right direction, I would greatly
- appreciate it. Sorry about the length of this posting, and thanks
- again.
-
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