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Date:      Mon, 8 Sep 1997 22:02:18 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        mcdougall@ameritech.net (Adam McDougall)
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: problem with w and who
Message-ID:  <199709082202.PAA13260@usr09.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <3414625B.A47402C9@ameritech.net> from "Adam McDougall" at Sep 8, 97 04:38:52 pm

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> When I have several users logged in, w and who only show 2 users total,
> me and a fake user called ttyp3... like this:
> 
> bsdx: {23} w
>  4:37PM  up 41 mins, 2 users, load averages: 0.33, 0.23, 0.11
> USER             TTY FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
> user1            v0  -                 3:59PM    37 xinit
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xi
> ttyp3                :0.0              4:00PM    41 -
> 
> I am using 3.0-current and I have had this problem for several days,
> maybe the whole time ive had 3.0, im not sure, but I have cvsup'ed and
> make'd world almost every day this week and the problem has not gone
> away. Thanks,

Rebuild lbkvm, then rebuild w, ps, and so on.  The structure sizes have
changed, and are treated as if they were kernel interfaces.  These are
bugs in the ps, w, who, and other libkvm using commands, IMO.  I think
they should all use procfs instead.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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