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From: Erik Rothwell <erothwell@callgtn.com>
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Erik Rothwell wrote:
> 
> Hey folks,
> 
> I think I've finally got GDM to work with multiple displays properly (a
> case of making the issue seem more complicated than it was :)) -- but,
> now I do a "w" from inside (or outside X) and I get all sorts of fancy
> errors such as:
> 
> w: /dev/:1 does not exist
> 
> And no users logged on.
> 
> Now, I can live with this ... it's not a critical error .. but, I run
> this machine in a house where at any one time 5 people are fighting for
> the computer :) When I'm signed on via SSH from work, I like to see
> who's on and so forth...
> 
> Is there anyway to fix this? Is it some kind of "linux thing" not fixed
> in the port?
> 
> Thanks,
> 

A little follow-up:

I run gdm as a daemon from /etc/rc.local... also "who" works (mostly)
correctly:


bacchusrx@endymion ttyp1
[/dev]                                                 [10:45am] % who
root             ttyv0   Mar 24 19:21
bacchusrx        :1      Mar 24 19:21	(console)
bacchusrx        :1      Mar 24 19:23	(console)
bacchusrx        :1      Mar 24 19:25	(console)
bacchusrx        :1      Mar 24 19:35	(console)

(I'm only logged in once on :1 but... meh) And users reports fine, as
well as last... (except 'last' says we're all on the console instead of
ttyv9 through 12 which are terms X runs on...)

However, w, uptime, etc all report that /dev:1: No such file or
directory.

Thanks,
Erik.

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