Sorry I've posted on this thread so many times.. I should have just found the answer I
was thinking about on dejanews and *then* posted it. But wading through a thousand
different posts on this same question didn;t seem like too much fun. The right query
to the search engine was all i needed.
so here's the final answer to the problem and it works like a charm:
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[re: who and Memory exhausted ]
> If you are still wondering about this...
> What we did to fix this was to recompile who in sh-utils-1.16-8.
OK, that is not exactly correct. Here is how we fixed who:
[Originally fixed by David McCormac]
Unpack the source RPM, but do not apply to the patches. This appears to
be where the problem originates. (As in who works only if I do not apply
the patch.)
rpm -i sh-utils-1.16-8.src.rpm
cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
tar xvfz sh-utils-1.16.tar.gz
cd sh-utils-1.16
./configure
cd lib; make ; cd ../src
make who
./who
And that is about it. You should now have a fully functional who...
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that was originally posted at this url in dejanews :
http://x12.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=336647283&CONTEXT=894242491.2057175125&hitnum=1
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--> hi all..
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--> i'm having a problem with /usr/bin/who .. it keeps failing. i've seen
--> past errors causing coredumps and other errors if i remember right...
--> here's the current error:
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--> who: Memory exhausted
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