On 3/31/25 03:36, gene heskett wrote:
On 3/31/25 02:09, Henrik Ahlgren wrote:no, its dns lookup fails there also. Bottom line: who, or its ytmp helpers, is incapable of reading the /etc/hosts file on systems w/o a dhcpd.Mike Castle <dalgoda+debian@gmail.com> writes:The whole utmp stuff is flaky, a best effort system that might give some resemblance to reality.I believe /run/utmp is gone in trixie, after systemd was upgraded to 256.5-2. The command `w` still works fine.
correction ytmp s/b utmp
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1080330 .Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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