From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 11 0: 9:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost01.reflexnet.net (mailhost01.reflexnet.net [64.6.192.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7EA037B401 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 00:09:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflexcom.com ([216.196.73.168]) by mailhost01.reflexnet.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Sun, 11 Feb 2001 00:07:38 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflexcom.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f1B89Ta32911; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 00:09:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 00:09:28 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: project10 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: w/who/uptime not showing anyone logged in Message-ID: <20010211000928.H62368@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from project10@siber.sparkhost.com on Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 02:20:00AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 02:20:00AM -0500, project10 wrote: > Hello, > I've had a persistent problem with my FreeBSD system, specifically that > the w/who and uptime utilities don't show any users logged in. Example: > # uptime > 2:07AM up 7:40, 0 users, load averages: 4.10, 3.16, 2.77 > # who > # w > 2:07AM up 7:40, 0 users, load averages: 3.77, 3.10, 2.75 > USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT [snip] > All of this leads me to the conclusion that the utmp file isn't being > written to properly -- but the reason behind this, I cannot figure > out. Does anyone in the FreeBSD community have any suggestions as to what > I can try to remedy this situation? I have seen weird results when there are odd things going on in /dev. Is there anything atypical about your /dev? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message