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Date:      Thu, 11 Feb 1999 08:28:44 -0500
From:      "Chuck O'Donnell" <cao@bus.net>
To:        stable mailing list at FreeBSD <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: w loses USER count
Message-ID:  <19990211082844.A178@milf18.bus.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9902101824080.10397-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>; from Tom on Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 06:25:01PM -0800
References:  <199902110228.UAA16835@barnes1.wustl.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9902101824080.10397-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>

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On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 06:25:01PM -0800, Tom wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Wayne M. Barnes wrote:
> 
> > Dear Tom,
> > 
> >     Thank you, that fixed part of my w problem,
> > but it still counts the users wrong, and doesn't show what users
> > are (am) doing:
> > 
> >  8:16PM  up 1 day,  6:52, 0 users, load averages: 0.01, 0.00, 0.00
> >  USER             TTY      FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
> > 
> >             Sincerely,  Wayne M Barnes  wayne@barnes1.wustl.edu
> 
>   You are going to have to log off and log back on to fix that.  That
> completely wipes your records, so as far as w/last are concerned, no one
> is logged in.
> 
> Tom

Doesn't this also happen when you login through xdm?

e.g. my workstation says:

 8:17AM  up 76 days, 19:39, 0 users, load averages: 0.31, 0.10, 0.03
USER     TTY FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT

--
Chuck

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