Re: w, who, finger, last, and netstat and ipv6

[Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net>]

Hi Michael,

On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 12:08:34AM +0100, Michael Grant wrote:
> > > % who
> > > mgrant   pts/1        2016-07-18 06:15 (2a00:S.1)
> >
> > I type "who" on Debian jessie and I do get the full IPv6 address:
> >
> > $ who
> > andy     pts/6        2016-07-23 01:42 (2001:ba8:1f1:f019::2)

[…]

> How odd that you are getting completely different results from me.

I've just noticed the :S.1 at the end of your output. That means
you're running from within GNU Screen. I get the same sort of
truncation when doing "who" from within GNU Screen so that probably
answers that.

Cheers,
Andy

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