Ben Gertzfield wrote: > >>>>> "Chris" == Chris Rutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Chris> For months now, `w' has only reported `-' (well, *almost* > Chris> all the time, anyway) in the FROM field for any connections > Chris> made through `telnetd'. Finally, with the update to PAMed > Chris> `login', I once again have the hostnames correctly > Chris> appearing in FROM again. Does anyone know why this wasn't > Chris> working for so long? > > I have had this problem reported to me too. Something in potato > broke a while ago.. but it never happened to me.
It's a bug in the telnet daemon. I got a message the other day that this bug has been fixed with the latest version. -- see shy jo