At 6:01 PM -0700 9/9/02, Phillip Stark wrote: >Hi all, > >Is there a way to pass the ip or hostname of the computer that sent >a job to a filter? The -h or -H filter flags would appear to work, >but these are the hostname as reported by the control file, not >necessarily the hostname of the computer that actually sent the job. >This is for an authentication-type function so I need to be sure >that the info is not spoofed (and, in any case, the hostname >reported by some non-unix platforms is not a DNS hostname). >Basically, I want the ip that the bits from the job actually came >from not the ip that the bits in the job *say* they came from. > >Is there and option I'm missing to do this? Could you reliably >parse this out of the -e or -k options? (-e and -k, the names of the >data and control files respectively, seem to have the hostname >embedded).
To answer part of my own question, no, you cannot parse the info from -e or -k--the hostname embedded there is from the control file just like -h. Hopefully there's another way? Phillip -- ***************************************************************** Phillip Stark Instructional Computing Lab Operations Manager University of California, Santa Cruz Got a question? Get an answer: http://ic.ucsc.edu/help ***************************************************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
