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Date:      Fri, 4 Jun 1999 10:41:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Joseph Davida <jd@davida.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: command who (and w)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9906041040300.12183-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199906021540.KAA04706@davida.com>

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On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Joseph Davida wrote:

> 	In releases 2.x, who and w would show the fully qualified
> 	hostname of all users who login from a remote host.
> 	If the fully qualified name is too long for display, then
> 	the IP address would get printed. For example on 2.2.1:
> 
> user1	ttyp1	Jun  2 07:29   (relay.mfa.com)
> user2	ttyp2	Jun  2 08:06   (204.154.227.254)
> 
> 	In 3.2, 'who' no longer prints the IP address if the
> 	fully qualified hostname is too long. It just truncates the
> 	name. For example:
> 
> roger            ttyp3   Jun  2 10:00	(xxxxxx.xxxxxxx)

In this case, 'w -n' may be more helpful.

Doug White                               
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