From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jun 19 11:22:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from alicia.nttmcl.com (alicia.nttmcl.com [216.69.69.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59F8137B404 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 11:22:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jj@localhost) by alicia.nttmcl.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id g5JIL9P17814; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 11:21:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 11:21:09 -0700 From: JJ Behrens To: Gavin Cameron , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Funny output from 4.6-STABLE 'w' command Message-ID: <20020619112109.A17343@alicia.nttmcl.com> References: <027b01c215d6$07fcfc40$6501a8c0@dale> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <027b01c215d6$07fcfc40$6501a8c0@dale>; from gavin@itworks.com.au on Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 06:07:31PM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > When I run the 'w' command on my box I get am error as shown here... > > chip# w > w: /dev/:0: No such file or directory > 6:03PM up 20:23, 3 users, load averages: 0.09, 0.39, 0.55 > USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT > : > : > chip# > > > I'm running 4.6-stable from last night. > > Any ideas? Are you using KDM (the KDE version of XDM)? If so, this is because of a bug that the author thinks is a feature. AlanE posted a workaround to the kde-freebsd mailing list a few weeks ago. Best Regards, -jj -- Users of C++ should consider hanging themselves rather than shooting their legs off--it's best not to use C++ simply as a better C. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message