Re: w

[James Troup <J.J.Troup@scm.brad.ac.uk>]

Robert Milkowski <milek@rudy.mif.pg.gda.pl> writes:

> I've installed Debian, but there're problems with "w".  In mans
> there's something about new format of utmp in libc6 (vs libc5) and
> some conflicts but I want "w" work!  If I remove /var/run/utmp and
> touch new one and now "w" it's ok (but it's say there's nobody -
> it's ok, I know), but if login writes something to it the "w"
> doesn't work immediatelly.

Have you tried clearing the wtmp file too?  Also there are still some
applications which will hose the {u,w}tmp, e.g. the current ssh
(Christian made a newer one, but it's stuck in non-US' incoming/).
Are you using ssh?

-- 
James


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