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.\" $OpenBSD: rwhod.8,v 1.9 1999/05/23 14:11:37 aaron Exp $
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.\" from: @(#)rwhod.8 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/11/93
.\" $OpenBSD: rwhod.8,v 1.9 1999/05/23 14:11:37 aaron Exp $
.\"
.Dd December 11, 1993
.Dt RWHOD 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm rwhod
.Nd system status server
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm rwhod
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
is the server which maintains the database used by the
.Xr rwho 1
and
.Xr ruptime 1
programs. Its operation is predicated on the ability to
.Em broadcast
messages on a network.
.Pp
.Nm
operates as both a producer and consumer of status information.
As a producer of information it periodically
queries the state of the system and constructs
status messages which are broadcast on a network.
As a consumer of information, it listens for other
.Nm
servers' status messages, validating them, then recording
them in a collection of files located in the directory
.Pa /var/rwho .
.Pp
The server transmits and receives messages at the port indicated
in the ``who'' service specification; see
.Xr services 5 .
The messages sent and received, are of the form:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
struct outmp {
char out_line[8]; /* tty name */
char out_name[8]; /* user id */
int32_t out_time; /* time on */
};
struct whod {
char wd_vers;
char wd_type;
char wd_fill[2];
int32_t wd_sendtime;
int32_t wd_recvtime;
char wd_hostname[32];
int32_t wd_loadav[3];
int32_t wd_boottime;
struct whoent {
struct outmp we_utmp;
int32_t we_idle;
} wd_we[1024 / sizeof (struct whoent)];
};
.Ed
.Pp
All fields are converted to network byte order prior to
transmission. The load averages are as calculated by the
.Xr w 1
program, and represent load averages over the 5, 10, and 15 minute
intervals prior to a server's transmission; they are multiplied by 100
for representation in an integer. The host name
included is that returned by
.Xr gethostname 3
with any trailing domain name omitted.
The array at the end of the message contains information about
the users logged in to the sending machine. This information
includes the contents of the
.Xr utmp 5
entry for each non-idle terminal line and a value indicating the
time in seconds since a character was last received on the terminal line.
.Pp
Messages received by the
.Xr rwho
server are discarded unless they originated at an
.Xr rwho
server's port. In addition, if the host's name, as specified
in the message, contains any unprintable
.Tn ASCII
characters, the
message is discarded. Valid messages received by
.Nm
are placed in files named
.Pa whod.hostname
in the directory
.Pa /var/rwho .
These files contain only the most recent message, in the
format described above.
.Pp
Status messages are generated approximately once every
3 minutes.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr ruptime 1 ,
.Xr rwho 1
.Sh BUGS
There should be a way to relay status information between networks.
Status information should be sent only upon request rather than continuously.
People often interpret the server dying
or network communication failures
as a machine going down.
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
command appeared in
.Bx 4.2 .
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