Re: w doesn't seem to work any more

[harish badrinath <harishbadrinath@gmail.com>]

Hello,
On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 12:19 AM, harish badrinath
<harishbadrinath@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 8:24 PM, Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> wrote:
>> If anybody feels like having christmas homework, I've just noticed that
>> the w command does not work any more:
>>
w command seems to be working.
Based on the output of ls -lrt /var/lib/dpkg/info | tail -n 1, my
system's last update date could be Nov 29 2011.
The output on the other hand does not seem to be valid. (this is from
a system that was just booted up)
<snip>
11:03:21 AM  up 32 minutes,  8 users,  load averages: 0.36, 0.15, 0.14
USER     TTY FROM            LOGIN@  IDLE   PID WHAT
root      co -              10:46AM  0:15   365 -bash
login      2 -              10:38AM 7months 367 /bin/bash -noprofile /dev/fd/3
login      3 -              10:38AM 7months 368 /bin/bash -noprofile /dev/fd/3
login      4 -              10:38AM 7months 369 /bin/bash -noprofile /dev/fd/3
login      5 -              10:38AM 7months 370 /bin/bash -noprofile /dev/fd/3
login      6 -              10:38AM 7months 371 /bin/bash -noprofile /dev/fd/3
login      1 -              10:38AM  0:25   366 /bin/bash -noprofile /dev/fd/3
root      p0 10.101.201.156 10:48AM     -   597 w
</snip>

Regards,
Harish