Re: who ?

[George Bonser <grep@shorelink.com>]

On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Art Lemasters wrote:

> to wipe and reinstall shellutils.  It _is_ a base package, and
> reinstalling anything for shells makes me nervous, so far.
> ...just a tiny bit of info. above (shellutils).  who works just
> fine, here. 
> 

My problem with who is that it seems to "remember" people who logged out
long ago. w seems to be a lot more accurate in showing me who is really on
the system.

To give an example:

16:16:47 ~ # w
  6:49pm  up 28 days,  8:52,  9 users,  load average: 0.27, 0.48, 0.33
USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU  WHAT
root     tty1                      27Jun98 28days  0.45s  0.45s
bash
root     tty2                      27Jun98 16days  0.59s  0.59s
bash
grep     ttyp0    madrone.shorelin  1:46pm  4.00s 16:22   9.90s  pine 
grep     ttyp2    madrone.shorelin  4:15pm  0.00s  0.86s  0.06s  w 
18:49:41 ~ # who
root     tty1     Jun 27 10:01
root     tty2     Jun 27 10:24
grep     ttyp0    Jul 25 13:46 (madrone.shorelink.com)
grep     ttyp1    Jul 13 22:23 (madrone.shorelink.com)
grep     ttyp2    Jul 25 16:15 (madrone.shorelink.com)
grep     ttyp3    Jul 16 21:46 (madrone.shorelink.com)
grep     ttyp4    Jul 25 17:12 (madrone:0.0)
grep     ttyp5    Jul 22 01:09 (madrone:0.0)
grep     ttyp6    Jul 18 17:50 (madrone:0.0)
18:49:44 ~ #

w in this case reports accurately.


George Bonser

Microsoft! Which end of the stick do you want today?


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