🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <34735@adm.brl.mil> ACCESS@krdc.int.alcan.ca (Shawn Allin - Alcan KRDC Computer Services) writes:
>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.

The workaround is not use the FQDN in /etc/sys_id.
Note that sending the FQDN is useful in networks with multiple domains 
and use rwhod in multicast mode.