Re: "last","w","who" not working !
Thankyou!! I have asked 5 different times on different debian lists to get
that anwser. It works too (i did need to do the reboot BTW)
Thanks again!
--Eric (udjat)
On 6 Jan 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
» In article <[🔎] 199801062207.XAA00540@lathspell.westend.com>,
» Christian Hammers <ch@lathspell.westend.com> wrote:
» >Hi !
» >
» >Since updating to the hamm (libc6) version (and maybe also before) my
» >"last", "w" and "who" do not work !!!
»
» 1. You need to update ALL your packages to hamm
» 2. Reboot if you haven't done that already
» 3. You need to move the wtmp file and truncate the utmp file:
» cd /var/log
» mv wtmp wtmp.libc5
» touch wtmp
» cd /var/run
» cp /dev/null utmp
» 4. You might want to reboot again to make sure
»
» This is because the "struct utmp" and thus the utmp and wtmp "databases"
» are different between libc5 and libc6
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