Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 20:53:02 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: David Syphers <dsyphers@uchicago.edu> Cc: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Weird uptime(1) output Message-ID: <20020921085302.GA1671@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <200209210127.35324.dsyphers@uchicago.edu> References: <20020921030553.GA656@grimoire.chen.org.nz> <005c01c2612f$8133d490$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> <200209210127.35324.dsyphers@uchicago.edu>
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On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 01:27:35AM -0500, David Syphers wrote:
[...]
> > uptime
> uptime: /dev/:0: No such file or directory
> 1:23AM up 6 mins, 0 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00
>
> As long as I've had this system, since 4.5-RC1, I've gotten this when I logged
> into KDE as a user, su'd root in an xterm, and ran uptime. I didn't get it as
> a normal user, but now I do. I don't know when that changed.
Thanks for the tip! I've tracked this down to the use of "kdm". If
someone logs in using "kdm", it makes an entry in /var/run/utmp with
the ttys entry of ":0". w(1) and uptime(1) examines this and since
there is no "/dev/:0", the complaint comes up.
While I like the fact that "kdm" makes a log entry (ie I like to know
who's logged in graphically), it's usage is not really compatible with
FreeBSD's uptime/w.
Cheers.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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