Bug#378157: general: w gives some weird message

["Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>]

On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 05:59:33AM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> I couldn't figure out what package "w" belongs to, hence general.
> "w" is reporting some messages on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.

  cassarossa:~> ls -l /usr/bin/w
  lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 19 2005-06-04 11:39 /usr/bin/w -> /etc/alternatives/w
  cassarossa:~> ls -l /etc/alternatives/w
  lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 17 2005-06-04 11:39 /etc/alternatives/w -> /usr/bin/w.procps
  cassarossa:~> dpkg -S /usr/bin/w.procps
  procps: /usr/bin/w.procps

You might want to do the same check on your own machine.

Note that if you give a binary name to reportbug, it will automatically track
down the right package for you.

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