I don't know if it makes a difference, but I've always used "w" and
"who" to get this list (actually never heard of users ...). Maybe they
work better for you ...

udo

Am Don, 2002-05-16 um 19.15 schrieb Eric Nodwell:
> 
> 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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