Bill Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| The "who" on Linux 6.0 (sh-utils-1.16-23) produces output like
|
| peters pts/7 Dec 17 11:38 (bitburger.as.arizona.edu)
|
| when I use telnet or rlogin to get to the machine. On Linux 6.1
| (sh-utils-2.0-1), this field is blank:
|
| gag pts/0 Dec 17 11:42
|
| This breaks a script I have that fetches the machine I logged in from so that
| DISPLAY can be redirected to that machine. Is the new behavior of "who"
| intended?
Thanks for the report.
Here's a tentative patch. If you get dotted quads but want
names instead, use --lookup (-l).
Index: who.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /fetish/shellutils/src/who.c,v
retrieving revision 1.55
diff -u -p -r1.55 who.c
--- who.c 1999/04/24 21:29:22 1.55
+++ who.c 1999/12/18 11:12:03
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ print_entry (const STRUCT_UTMP *utmp_ent
printf (" . ");
}
#if HAVE_UT_HOST
- if (utmp_ent->ut_host[0] && do_lookup)
+ if (utmp_ent->ut_host[0])
{
char ut_host[sizeof (utmp_ent->ut_host) + 1];
char *host = 0, *display = 0;
@@ -189,9 +189,12 @@ print_entry (const STRUCT_UTMP *utmp_ent
if (display)
*display++ = '\0';
- if (*ut_host)
- /* See if we can canonicalize it. */
- host = canon_host (ut_host);
+ if (*ut_host && do_lookup)
+ {
+ /* See if we can canonicalize it. */
+ host = canon_host (ut_host);
+ }
+
if (! host)
host = ut_host;
