From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 12 11:51:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from siber.sparkhost.com (siber.sparkhost.com [63.151.165.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F62137B491 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 11:51:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (project10@localhost) by siber.sparkhost.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA43215; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 14:50:24 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from project10@siber.sparkhost.com) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 14:50:23 -0500 (EST) From: project10 To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: w/who/uptime not showing anyone logged in In-Reply-To: <20010211000928.H62368@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Crist J. Clark wrote: > 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? > -- Not to my knowledge -- I just did a 'sh MAKEDEV all', which did not remedy the problem. Anyone have any other ideas as to the cause of this problem? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message