Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:42:08 -0800 From: "Garrett Cooper" <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: "Pegasus Mc Cleaft" <ken@mthelicon.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: who on FreeBSD 8.0 - AMD64 Message-ID: <7d6fde3d0811231842u418ac567m5cb2041b2cc8f1de@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200811240226.58137.ken@mthelicon.com> References: <200811240152.13032.ken@mthelicon.com> <2B28B3C6-FC8F-4F00-A5CB-241DE2B8B00A@gmail.com> <200811240226.58137.ken@mthelicon.com>
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On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Pegasus Mc Cleaft <ken@mthelicon.com> wrote:
> On Monday 24 November 2008 02:19:40 Garrett Cooper wrote:
>> On Nov 23, 2008, at 5:52 PM, Pegasus Mc Cleaft wrote:
>> > Hello Hackers,
>> >
> <SNIP>
>
>>
>> `who' works perfectly fine for me on CURRENT/AMD64 synced up 3 days
>> ago, via an ssh terminal. Can you provide more details, e.g. when was
>> your last sync date, did you blow away your utmp directory, etc?
>> Thanks,
>> -Garrett
>
> Hi Garrett,
> Its actually the other way around. If I SSH into the machine, I see my login
> in the 'who', however, if I telnet in or use a xterm I dont..
>
> The last sync/build world/build kernel I have done was about 24 hours ago,
> however, I think the problem has been going on for a while now. I noticed it
> about a month ago and forgot about it until the other day when I tried using
> 'who' again.
>
> I havent blown away the utmp directory (or touched it, for that matter). I
> can try clearing if, if you think it may help?
>
> Ta
> Peg
Actually, no please don't blow it. After hearing that it occurs
only over ssh I tried with a local login and it functions exactly the
same as with the ssh terminal.
1. What's the exit code after you try and execute who?
2. `ls -l /var/run/utmp'? Should be set to mode 00644.
Thanks,
-Garrett
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