Hi guys,

I know not many people really use rwhod thses days (You can't use that! It's all insecure and stuff!) but I am.

I've got a slackware 8.0 box on which rwhod runs delightfully. I have a slakcware 8.0 box on which it will only receive rwho info, but doesn't seem to transmit anything (the other boxes don't have any entries for this box. Infact this box doesn't have an entry for this box!)

I now have an 8.1 box, and rwhod is once again listening, and getting info from other boxes, but it won't populate its own database and no other boxes seem to have any rwho info from it either.

I have run rwhod like this:

/usr/sbin/rwhod

so it should be listening and broadcasting. Infact, it's just the rwhod lines uncommented in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet2

I have no idea where to look for causes of this strange behaviour. Does anyone have any ideas?

Has anyone got any ideas with this? I did find something out, but I stopped using it and am once again looking into it.

Anyone have any experience with rwho/rwhod/ruptime?

tifkat

Is it disabled with inetd? Can you try some requests and post the tcpdump output from the problem box?

I remember that I solved this when I originally posted the question. I can't remember how I arrived at this patch, but it works. Applied it to the source and compiled and it's working as hoped:

*** ./rwhod.c Sun Jul 23 13:19:48 2000
--- /u01/rwhod.c Tue Aug 12 23:59:49 2003
***************
*** 51,56 ****
--- 51,57 ----
#include <net/if.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <netinet/ip.h>
+ #include <time.h>

#ifndef __linux__
#include <nlist.h>
***************
*** 189,195 ****
exit(1);
}
(void) signal(SIGHUP, huphandler);
! openlog("rwhod", LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON);

if ((sk = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0)) < 0) {
syslog(LOG_ERR, "socket: %m");
--- 190,196 ----
exit(1);
}
(void) signal(SIGHUP, huphandler);
! openlog("rwhod", LOG_PID|LOG_NDELAY, LOG_DAEMON);

if ((sk = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0)) < 0) {
syslog(LOG_ERR, "socket: %m");
***************
*** 359,367 ****
*cp = '\0';
mynamelen = strlen(myname);
if (mynamelen > sizeof(mywd.wd_hostname))
! mynamelen = sizeof(mywd.wd_hostname);
! strncpy(mywd.wd_hostname, myname, mynamelen);
! mywd.wd_hostname[sizeof(mywd.wd_hostname)-1] = 0;

getboottime(&mywd);

--- 360,368 ----
*cp = '\0';
mynamelen = strlen(myname);
if (mynamelen > sizeof(mywd.wd_hostname))
! mynamelen = sizeof(mywd.wd_hostname-1);
! strncpy(mywd.wd_hostname, myname, mynamelen+1);
! mywd.wd_hostname[mynamelen] = 0;

getboottime(&mywd);



tifkat

(Deleted because I found my patch)

(Deleted because I found my patch)

rwhod doesn't seem to run from inetd. It runs from /etc/rc.d/rc.inet2. It's just running /usr/sbin/rwhod without any arguments.

tifkat