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Re: w command



Remco van de Meent wrote:

> On Sun, 3 May 1998, Nuno Carvalho wrote:
>
>  :  Why when i call the w command get that message ?
>  :
>  :   $ w
>  :    bad data in /var/run/utmp
>  :
>  :  What would be the reason ? I already deleted that file and it still the
>  : same !
>
> Maybe you're half-way an upgrade from a libc5 system to a 'full' libc6
> system? If so, I think there are packages installed which corrupt your utmp
> file. Does `last' give correct output?

 By the way, the 'last' command works fine !

 What should I do ?

 Best regards,
     Nuno Carvalho

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Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho

Dep. Informatics Engineering
University of Coimbra
PORTUGAL

http://student.dei.uc.pt/~nemanuel
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