From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 11 0:42:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.43.230.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CED2F37B4EC for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 00:42:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.9.3) with SMTP id f1B8eJi56441 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 03:40:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <007901c09405$f516e6c0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: References: Subject: Re: w/who/uptime not showing anyone logged in Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 03:38:06 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 1) The "screen" utility adds a proper entry to the wtmp/utmp files, > and you can see users using "screen tcsh" as logged in through > "who" or "w" > 2) "last" shows users still logged in (wtmp entry not > terminated correctly?) > project10 ttyp5 abyss Sun Feb 11 02:15 still logged in > 3) The utmp file is 0 bytes, when many users are logged in. utmp isn't > being written to correctly? Have you rebuilt screen/tcsh or any other login-related program? Most likely you're running some binary that isn't playing nice and is truncating the utmp entries. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message