On Thu, Jul 23, 2026 at 12:33:32PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
> At Thu, 23 Jul 2026 10:12:31 -0400 Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 23, 2026 at 09:15:05 -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
> > > On a fresh install of trixie (Debian 13), I am getting this message. Where is
> > > it coming from?
> > >
> > > The message is:
> > >
> > > cannot stat /var/run/utmp. Please "unset watch".
> >
> > It would help enormously if you told us what command you ran to produce
> > the message.
>
> I'm not running any partitular command. This message occurs at every shell
> prompt. I do have a set prompt in my .cshrc (I am using tcsh as my shell):
>
> #
> # set prompt
> #
> set me = `whoami`
> if ("$me" != "root") set prompt="`hostname`% "
> if ("$me" == "root") set prompt="`hostname`# "
> #
- Does it happen if you don't set your prompt?
- does it happen if you invoke hostname directly?
- does it happen (improbable) if you invoke whoami directly?
This would help to bisect (trisect?) the problem.
Cheers
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tomás
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