[2152] in RedHat Linux List
RE: w
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Castelijn, Maurice)
Fri Nov 1 00:04:39 1996
From: "Castelijn, Maurice" <Castelijn.Maurice@kpmg.nl>
To: "redhat-list@redhat.com" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 15:12:06 +0100
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>From: Philip Blundell[SMTP:pjb27@cam.ac.uk]
>Sent: donderdag 31 oktober 1996 16:00
>To: Castelijn, Maurice
>Cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
>Subject: RE: w
>
>> Why I said that, I remember a quote in the manpage...
>>
>> "Warning: utmp must be writable, because many system programs depend on
>> its integrity. You risk faked system logfiles and modifications of
>> system files if you leave utmp writable to any user."
>>
>> Perhaps that explains it? =)
>>
>> That "rm /etc/psdevtab" was the solution, was not within my knowledge. I
>> don't have a file like that on my system (and previous systems). I'm
>> glad to know about it now though.
>
>No, no, you're still missing the point. Yes, I was having trouble with
>psdevtab, but that wasn't what this message was about. The issue here was
>that 'w' doesn't truncate the hostname field in its output at all, so the
>display is messy if people are logged in from a machine with a long name.
Ah, ok now I know... I wish I had these simple problems... anyone want
to exchange problems? =)
Greets,
Maurice.
>
>But thanks for your tips anyway.
>P
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