Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:19:40 -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: <2B28B3C6-FC8F-4F00-A5CB-241DE2B8B00A@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200811240152.13032.ken@mthelicon.com> References: <200811240152.13032.ken@mthelicon.com>
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On Nov 23, 2008, at 5:52 PM, Pegasus Mc Cleaft wrote: > Hello Hackers, > > I noticed something the other day that I thought was a bit weird. I > had a > high amount of HD activity, so I wanted to see who was on my > machine. I tried > using the "who" command and received no information (not even for > myself). > > I have found that various methods of signing in cause different > behavior, > presumably due to being assigned different terminal names. For > instance: If I > open an Xterm, or telnet into the machine, I will not see any > information > (Although a who -q does), however, if I SSH or sign in on the > console, I get > the results I was expecting. > > Am I missing something or being a bit thick? (please see below for > examples) > > Peg > > [through a xterm] > feathers$ who > feathers$ > > [through a telnet] > feathers$ telnet localhost > Trying ::1... > Connected to localhost. > Escape character is '^]'. > Trying SRA secure login: > User (XXXXXX): > Password: > [ SRA accepts you ] > > FreeBSD/amd64 (feathers.peganest.com) (pts/2) > <SNIP> > You have new mail. > feathers$ who > feathers$ > > [Through a SSH connection] > titan$ ssh feathers > Enter passphrase for key '/home/XXXXX/.ssh/id_rsa': > Last login: Mon Nov 24 01:45:08 2008 from localhost > Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994 > The Regents of the University of California. All rights > reserved. > > FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT (FEATHERS) #1: Sat Nov 22 16:07:04 UTC 2008 > <SNIP> > > feathers$ > feathers$ who > XXXXX pts/3 Nov 24 01:47 (XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX) > feathers$ `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
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