Re: Commands who and w no longer work

[Tressens Lionel <tressens etud insa-tlse fr>]

Hello,

I have RH5.2 installed and the 'w' and 'who' commands are working fine...

Lionel
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On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Robert D'Attilio wrote:

> I have recently upgraded to RH5.2 from 4.2 and notice that the commands
> 'w' and 'who' no longer show a list of currently logged in users.
> 
> The following is what I get from running w :
>      11:36pm  up 1 day,  1:02,  1 user,  load average: 0.06, 0.12, 0.09
>     USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU
> WHAT
> 
> When I run who, the command apperars to hang without returning anything
> for a couple of minutes.
> 
> Checked some of the archives and saw some vagure
> discussions/postulations about libc5 and the utmp file but nothing else
> terribly helpful.  Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks
> Robert
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