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From: franks@synoptics.com (Frank Stutzman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: determining original host
Message-ID: <22258@mvis1.com>
Date: 1 Apr 91 19:21:54 GMT
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References: <822@tiamat.fsc.com>
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In article <822@tiamat.fsc.com>, jim@tiamat.fsc.com ( IT Manager) writes:

|> Personally, I wish rsh and rlogin would just pass the entire
environment, and
|> let the remote host set it's own local stuff, with everything else
remaining
|> the same.

Is'nt this what the 'on' command is supposed to do?  I've never used it
much
but that is the idea that you get from the man pages.  Of course, the
big
problem with it is that you have to have nfs up.

BTW, on the original question, as of 7.0 the /etc/utmp file does have
information
on where a virtual terminal connection (rlogin, telnet, whatnot) came
from (i.e.
the host who origniated it).  Unfortunately, there are no shipped
utilites that 
will dig this out for you.  Take a look at /usr/include/utmp.h.  The
entry for that
has UNSUPPORTED stamped all over it, but I've seen it work.

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