From: maschepe@THAMA1.APGEA.ARMY.MIL ("Michael A. Schepers")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid
Subject: ruptime and rwho not working as expected
Date: 15 Sep 92 16:38:52 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet



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>

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     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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