On Thu, Jul 23, 2026 at 02:21:22PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote: > At Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:41:49 +0200 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2026 at 12:33:32PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote: > > > At Thu, 23 Jul 2026 10:12:31 -0400 Greg Wooledge <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2026 at 09:15:05 -0400, Robert Heller wrote: > > > > > On a fresh install of trixie (Debian 13), I am getting this message. > > > > > Where is > > > > > it coming from? > > > > > > > > > > The message is: > > > > > > > > > > cannot stat /var/run/utmp. Please "unset watch". > > > > > > > > It would help enormously if you told us what command you ran to produce > > > > the message. > > > > > > I'm not running any partitular command. This message occurs at every > > > shell > > > prompt. I do have a set prompt in my .cshrc (I am using tcsh as my > > > shell): > > > > > > # > > > # set prompt > > > # > > > set me = `whoami` > > > if ("$me" != "root") set prompt="`hostname`% " > > > if ("$me" == "root") set prompt="`hostname`# " > > > # > > > > - Does it happen if you don't set your prompt? > > - does it happen if you invoke hostname directly? > > - does it happen (improbable) if you invoke whoami directly? > > I took out the 'set prompt=' commands from my .cshrc file, it still happens. > It does NOT happen if I use either of the whoami and hostname commands,
Interesting: elsewhere in this thread "set watch" is named as the most probable culprit, which sounds plausible to me. Probably it's elsewhere in your .cshrc. Cheers -- t
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