From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 10 13:14:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A95A515468 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 13:14:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA85954; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 13:13:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 13:13:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Cillian Sharkey Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Idle times from finger, w, etc.. In-Reply-To: <37B02D02.E487F569@baker.ie> 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 Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Cillian Sharkey wrote: > Hi, > > Just noticed that on a Linux system (RedHat 5.2 & 6.0) when one > does a "finger user" or a "w user" and the said user has been > idle for less than an hour, the idle time is reported in > minutes & seconds. > > ..however, on a FreeBSD 3.2 system, the same commands run in the > same scenario don't display seconds. In other words, the idle > time reported by Linux was much more accurate and informative > than its counterpart in FreeBSD. > > Anyone know the reason why ? a) history b) philosophy c) someone on linux got bored and whipped up patches Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message