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RE: w

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Castelijn, Maurice)
Thu Oct 31 05:38:38 1996

From: "Castelijn, Maurice" <Castelijn.Maurice@kpmg.nl>
To: "redhat-list@redhat.com" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 09:38:27 +0100
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>From: 	Philip Blundell[SMTP:pjb27@cam.ac.uk]
>Sent: 	woensdag 30 oktober 1996 23:47
>To: 	redhat-list@redhat.com
>Subject: 	Re: w
>
>On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Philip Blundell wrote:

[snip]

>And, on the Alpha:
>
>[phil@paddington phil]$ w
> 11:45pm  up  1:33,  2 users,  load average: 0.18, 0.22, 0.28
>USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE   JCPU   PCPU  WHAT
>phil     ttyp0    kings-cross.london.uk.eu.org:0.011:25pm 89days  0.53s
>0.07s  w 
>phil     ttyp1    kings-cross.london.uk.eu.org:0.011:30pm 13:48   7.85s
>0.77s  -bash 
>[phil@paddington phil]
>
>All the fields look valid there, but the "FROM" one isn't being truncated
>as it should.  This is a bit less annoying, but still looks messy.

How about looking at your /var/run/utmp file? Then look at the
permissions.
They MUST be set to -rw-r--r-- ... else you might have a problem other
users can write it. Look for a "man utmp" if you've got other questions.
Perhaps that's of your help.

Maurice.


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