Re: w only giving `-' as the FROM field

To: chris@fluff.org
Cc: Debian developers list <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: w only giving `-' as the FROM field
From: Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>
Date: 15 Sep 1999 15:15:38 -0700
Message-id: <[🔎] yttyae7om7p.fsf@gilgamesh.cse.ucsc.edu>
In-reply-to: Chris Rutter's message of "Wed, 15 Sep 1999 23:00:43 +0100 (BST)"
References: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.4.10.9909152255040.13529-100000@inkvine.fluff.org>

>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Rutter <chris@fluff.org> writes:

    Chris> For months now, `w' has only reported `-' (well, *almost*
    Chris> all the time, anyway) in the FROM field for any connections
    Chris> made through `telnetd'.  Finally, with the update to PAMed
    Chris> `login', I once again have the hostnames correctly
    Chris> appearing in FROM again.  Does anyone know why this wasn't
    Chris> working for so long?

I have had this problem reported to me too. Something in potato
broke a while ago.. but it never happened to me.

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