Nick:
funny thing... I was ready to ask exacltly the same than Michel!!! I'm
*finally* taking an unix class... and, having freevsd I set up a virtual
just for the class ;)...
in any case... one of the tools that I need to be the "teacher's
pet";=) is who... but doesn't work!!!!....
one thing that called my attention is that many man pages that make
references to utmp, refer to it as /var/run/utmp and *not*
/var/log/utmp...
the other thing that I was thinking is if this situation could be a result
of the modifications of ps!
in any case... look at this...
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wtmp begins Wed Jun 27 15:36:12 2001
[class9@cs399 class9]$ last | grep 'still logged in'
class11 ttyp2 cs399 Tue Jul 3 22:49 still logged in
class9 ttyp1 cs399 Tue Jul 3 22:49 still logged in
class3 ttyp4 063-151-109-103. Tue Jul 3 21:44 still logged in
class4 ttyp5 063-151-109-103. Tue Jul 3 21:07 still logged in
skarriga ttyp3 dyn-2-27.sou.min Tue Jul 3 19:56 still logged in
skarriga ttyp6 92Net-109.sou.ed Mon Jul 2 09:40 still logged in
[class9@cs399 class9]$ who
[class9@cs399 class9]$ ls -l /var/log/wtmp /var/log/utmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 27 16:01 /var/log/utmp
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 68352 Jul 3 22:49 /var/log/wtmp
[class9@cs399 class9]$ ls /var/log/utmp*
/var/log/utmp
[class9@cs399 class9]$ ls /var/run/utmp*
ls: /var/run/utmp*: No such file or directory
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any ideas? ... I even copy who from the hosts (it's different as reported
by diff)... with the same result!
Cheers!
Marcos
pd: in an unrelated issue (and probably off-topic for this list ;)... I do
need to install talk and finger... will appreciate any pointers (yup.. I
know.. i can... and i do read the fine manualS... that's why i'm asking
for pointers and not a step by step ;)
On 3 Jul 2001, Nick Burrett wrote:
> Michael Stump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > any idea why who and uptime function improperly
> > with 4 users uptime says 0 users
> > and who returns absolutly nothing
>
> You are either missing /var/log/wtmp or /var/log/utmp.
>
>
> Nick.
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