users and finger seem to be broken.  They certainly don't report all
the users who are logged in.  We have a Mandrake 8.2 server with
several X-terminals.

This doesn't seem to be a Mandrake-specific problem: they are also
broken on our server running Debian Linux.  From discussion on Debian
mailing lists, it seems that this comes about because some programs
don't write to /var/run/utmp correctly.  Is there any solution to this
problem?  Any alternative way to get a list of users logged on, and
info such as how long they've been logged on?

thanks,
Eric

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