🚀 go-pugleaf

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