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Date:      Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:03:24 +0000
From:      Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org>
To:        Istvan Gabor <suseuser04@lajt.hu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: w and who don't list users in FreeBSD 9.0 and 9.1
Message-ID:  <20130319160324.GA63756@eris.bzerk.org>
In-Reply-To: <56707a03.4dd020e4.51488b7c.7858d@lajt.hu>
References:  <56707a03.4dd020e4.51488b7c.7858d@lajt.hu>

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On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 04:59:56PM +0100, Istvan Gabor typed:
> Hello:
> 
> I have both FreeBSD 9.0 and 9.1 on two different computers.
> w and who commands do not list logged in users in any of them
> (either for root or a regular user).
> 
> The output of w is:
> 
> root@:/root # w
>  4:56PM  up 10 mins, 0 users, load averages: 0.18, 0.26, 0.20
> USER       TTY      FROM                      LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
> root@:/root #
> 
> And the output of who:
> 
> root@:/root # who
> root@:/root #
> 
> Why is this and how can I fix it?

This can happen if your kernel and world are out of sync.

Ruben




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