From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 11 07:48:28 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA04814 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 07:48:28 -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 HAA04806 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 07:48:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wayne@barnes1.wustl.edu) Received: (from wayne@localhost) by barnes1.wustl.edu (8.9.2/8.7.3) id JAA18107 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 09:59:34 -0600 (CST) From: "Wayne M. Barnes" Message-Id: <199902111559.JAA18107@barnes1.wustl.edu> Subject: w loses USER count To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG (stable mailing list at FreeBSD) Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 09:59:34 -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 Chuck, On my other system, which as different 3.0 problems, the w command works as follows [although it seems slower than it was on 2.2.8 ], when I am the only one logged on: wayne@barnes2:/home/wayne>w 9:43AM up 14:31, 1 user, load averages: 0.01, 0.01, 0.00 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT wayne p0 61.178 12May61 - w wayne@barnes2:/home/wayne> System ID: FreeBSD barnes2.wustl.edu 3.1-BETA FreeBSD 3.1-BETA #3: Wed Feb 10 18:56:17 CST 1999 wayne@barnes2.wustl.edu:/usr/src.3.0-stable/sys/compile/GENETHREE i386 I don't know from xdm, but as far as I can tell, your w is broken, too. Wayne M. Barnes, Ph.D. wayne@barnes1.wustl.edu Biochemistry Dept. 8231 Washington Univ. Medical School 314.362.3351 fax 7183 660 South Euclid Ave., St. Louis, MO 63110 http://barnes1.wustl.edu Just plain Taq is old tech anymore. ----- Forwarded message from Chuck O'Donnell ----- On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 06:25:01PM -0800, Tom wrote: > On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Wayne M. Barnes wrote: > > > 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 > > You are going to have to log off and log back on to fix that. That > completely wipes your records, so as far as w/last are concerned, no one > is logged in. > > Tom Doesn't this also happen when you login through xdm? e.g. my workstation says: 8:17AM up 76 days, 19:39, 0 users, load averages: 0.31, 0.10, 0.03 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT -- ----- End of forwarded message from Chuck O'Donnell ----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message