Strange "w", "who" and "uptime" output

Strange "w", "who" and "uptime" output

Post by Tom William » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00



Hi!  I've upgraded my Slackware 3.5 system to use a 2.2.12 kernel,
glibc-2.1.2, and gcc-2.95.1.  During the kernel upgrade, I've upgraded a
number of other packages, per the 2.2 kernel doc.  I've installed
procps-2.0.5 and util-linux-2.9y.

I'm finding that when I issue the "w" or "who" commands, 1 user (me) is
shown as being logged on, but I see no entry for my session.  When I
issue the "uptime" command, again 1 user is reported as being logged in.
This happens when I'm logged at the console.

When I login from remote (via rlogin), "w", "who", and "uptime" all
report 0 users logged in.

What am I missing here????

Thanks in advance for your time!

Peace....

Tom Williams

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Strange "w", "who" and "uptime" output

Post by Paul Kimo » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00



> Hi!  I've upgraded my Slackware 3.5 system to use a 2.2.12 kernel,
> glibc-2.1.2, and gcc-2.95.1.  During the kernel upgrade, I've upgraded a
> number of other packages, per the 2.2 kernel doc.  I've installed
> procps-2.0.5 and util-linux-2.9y.

> I'm finding that when I issue the "w" or "who" commands, 1 user (me) is
> shown as being logged on, but I see no entry for my session.  When I
> issue the "uptime" command, again 1 user is reported as being logged in.
> This happens when I'm logged at the console.

> When I login from remote (via rlogin), "w", "who", and "uptime" all
> report 0 users logged in.

Did you change from libc5?  If so, your new uptime, etc., programs
are expecting the libc6 {u,w}tmp format.  See the glibc-2.1 FAQ3.2.

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Strange "w", "who" and "uptime" output

Post by Tom William » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00





> > Hi!  I've upgraded my Slackware 3.5 system to use a 2.2.12 kernel,
> > glibc-2.1.2, and gcc-2.95.1.  During the kernel upgrade, I've
upgraded a
> > number of other packages, per the 2.2 kernel doc.  I've installed
> > procps-2.0.5 and util-linux-2.9y.

> > I'm finding that when I issue the "w" or "who" commands, 1 user (me)
is
> > shown as being logged on, but I see no entry for my session.  When I
> > issue the "uptime" command, again 1 user is reported as being logged
in.
> > This happens when I'm logged at the console.

> > When I login from remote (via rlogin), "w", "who", and "uptime" all
> > report 0 users logged in.

> Did you change from libc5?  If so, your new uptime, etc., programs
> are expecting the libc6 {u,w}tmp format.  See the glibc-2.1 FAQ3.2.

> --


Yep.  I upgraded to lib6 (glibc-2.1.2) as my primary C library.  I'll
check this out.

Peace.....(and thanks!)

Tom

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