Re: finger return "No one logged on." and I am logged...... (fwd)
On Aug 14, Andrea Arcangeli wrote
> Anybody can report my same problem?
>
> Andrea Arcangeli
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 16:22:17 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Andrea Arcangeli <arcangeli@mbox.queen.it>
> To: David Fries <dfries@mail.win.org>
> Cc: linux-admin@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: finger return "No one logged on." and I am logged......
>
> On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, David Fries wrote:
> >
> >>Are you logged in at console or with an rxvt in X? I don't have a
> >>problem with logging in the console, but it doesn't show up if I'm in
> >>a rxvt.
> >
> >I logged in the console, but w works also if I am logged in xterm:
> >
> >arca:~$ w
> > 12:03pm up 5 min, 4 users, load average: 0.04, 0.07, 0.02
> >USER TTY LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
> >andrea ttyp0 11:59am 0:22 0:00 0:00 -bash
> >andrea ttyp1 12:00pm 2:09 0:00 0:00 -bash
> >andrea ttyp2 12:01pm 0:04 0:00 0:00 pine
> >andrea ttyp3 12:02pm 0:00 0:00 0:00 w
> >arca:~$ last |head -5
> >andrea ttyp3 :0.0 Thu Aug 14 12:02 still logged in
> >andrea ttyp2 :0.0 Thu Aug 14 12:01 still logged in
> >andrea ttyp1 :0.0 Thu Aug 14 12:00 still logged in
> >andrea ttyp0 :0.0 Thu Aug 14 11:59 still logged in
> >reboot system boot Thu Aug 14 11:58
> >arca:~$ finger
> >No one logged on.
> >
> >I want to know if is a finger problem or is caused by something other.
> >
>
> I am sure the problem is caused by login.
>
> arca:~# >/var/run/utmp
> arca:~# last -f /var/run/utmp
>
> utmp begins Thu Aug 14 16:16:46 1997
> arca:~# login
>
> arca login: root
> Password:
> Linux arca 2.1.49 #2 Tue Aug 12 21:29:09 CEST 1997 i586 unknown
> Last login: Thu Aug 14 16:03:58 on tty1.
> No mail.
> arca:~# last -f /var/run/utmp
> ~***|*** * **`q * **I Sun Apr 7 10:47 still logged in
> *r *Y**8* `q Thu Jan 1 01:08 still logged in
> *- *r `q Sat Jan 10 22:43 still logged in
> ***3 4*@ Thu Jan 1 01:00 - 19:12 (18:12)
>
> utmp begins Thu Jan 1 01:00:00 1970
> arca:~#
>
> Can be a libc problem? xterm login shell return the same problem of login
> from console.
>
> arca:~# ldd /bin/login
> libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x4000b000)
> arca:~# ldd /usr/bin/X11/xterm
> libXaw.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d/libXaw.so.6 (0x4000b000)
> libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x4005e000)
> libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x40070000)
> libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x400b2000)
> libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x400bb000)
> libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x400d0000)
> libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x400db000)
> libncurses.so.3.0 => /lib/libncurses.so.3.0 (0x40179000)
> libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x401b6000)
>
> arca:~$ dpkg -l libc5
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
> uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name Version Description
> +++-===============-==============-============================================
> ii libc5 5.4.33-5 The Linux C library version 5 (run-time
> libr
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Andrea Arcangeli
>
On my machine:
mike:~$ finger
No one logged on.
mike:~$ finger @localhost
[localhost]
Username Real name Idletime TTY Remote console location
root root 15:09 1 (mike)
mschmitz Mike Schmitz 20:00 2 (mike)
root root 17:00 3 (mike)
dialout dialout 0:03 s1 (/usr/sbin/pppd )
Bug or feature?
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