From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 10 18:17:52 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA01071 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 18:17:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from barnes1.wustl.edu (barnes1.wustl.edu [128.252.162.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA01054 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 18:17:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wayne@barnes1.wustl.edu) Received: (from wayne@localhost) by barnes1.wustl.edu (8.9.2/8.7.3) id UAA16835 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 20:28:50 -0600 (CST) From: "Wayne M. Barnes" Message-Id: <199902110228.UAA16835@barnes1.wustl.edu> Subject: w loses USER count To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG (stable mailing list at FreeBSD) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 20:28:50 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ----- Forwarded message from Tom ----- On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Wayne M. Barnes wrote: > Dear Stabilizers, > > The w command is broken on this system. It's the only Your data files are broken actually. Do: cp /dev/null /var/log/wtmp cp /dev/null /var/log/lastlog cp /dev/null /var/run/utmp and you should be ok. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message