Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!agate!ucbvax!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu!karl From: karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: rwhod Message-ID: Date: 10 Feb 89 14:01:46 GMT References: <3674@phri.UUCP> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: OSU Lines: 12 In-reply-to: roy@phri.UUCP's message of 10 Feb 89 03:32:39 GMT roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes: The N^2 effect isn't so bad when you've got 15 or 20 machines, but it kills you when you've got hundreds. My idea was to make rwhod write into /usr/lib/rwho instead of /usr/spool/rwho. Better, run an rwhod which doesn't broadcast at all, but rather [a] NFS-mount /usr/spool/rwho from a single server, and then [b] just scribbles /usr/spool/rwho/its-own-name. Poof, no more broadcasts at all. --Karl