Bug 212076

Summary: Allow longer hostnames with rwhod / ruptime
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: William Yardley <william+redhat-bugzilla>
Component: rwhoAssignee: Honza Horak <hhorak>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
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Version: 5.0CC: azelinka, ovasik, rvokal
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Description William Yardley 2006-10-24 21:10:18 UTC
Description of problem:

rwho-0.17-18

How reproducible:

ruptime seems to truncate hostnames at 12 characters. There doesn't seem to be
an option to print longer hostnames. I'm not sure if this limitation is just in
the way ruptime prints the hostname, or if it's a limitation of rwhod or even
the protocol.

Would it be possible to allow longer hostnames? Even if you up it to 15 or 17
characters, output should easily fit in a 70 / 80 character wide terminal.

Comment 1 Jiri Moskovcak 2007-08-10 11:48:37 UTC
Created attachment 161045 [details]
Proposed patch

This patch allows you to use -n:<hostnamelen> to set desired output length for
hostname. The default value is still 12 chars.

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2007-12-03 20:39:27 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion, but this component is not scheduled to be updated in
the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux release.  This request will
be reviewed for a future Red Hat Enterprise Linux release.

Comment 12 RHEL Program Management 2012-06-12 01:11:10 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated in the
current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to address this
request at this time. Red Hat invites you to ask your support
representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant,
in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Comment 15 RHEL Program Management 2012-10-10 11:47:34 UTC
Thank you for submitting this issue for consideration. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 has reached the end of Production 1 Phase of its Life Cycle.  Red Hat does not plan to incorporate the suggested capability in a future Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 minor release. If you would like Red  Hat to re-consider this feature request and the requested functionality is not currently in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, please re-open the request via appropriate support channels and provide additional supporting details about the importance of this issue.