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Date:      Mon, 12 Feb 2001 14:50:23 -0500 (EST)
From:      project10 <project10@siber.sparkhost.com>
To:        cjclark@alum.mit.edu
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: w/who/uptime not showing anyone logged in
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102121448130.36677-100000@siber.sparkhost.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010211000928.H62368@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex>

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On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Crist J. Clark wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 02:20:00AM -0500, project10 wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I've had a persistent problem with my FreeBSD system, specifically that
> > the w/who and uptime utilities don't show any users logged in. Example:
> > # uptime
> >  2:07AM  up  7:40, 0 users, load averages: 4.10, 3.16, 2.77     
> > # who
> > # w
> > 2:07AM  up  7:40, 0 users, load averages: 3.77, 3.10, 2.75
> > USER             TTY      FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT    
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > All of this leads me to the conclusion that the utmp file isn't being
> > written to properly -- but the reason behind this, I cannot figure
> > out. Does anyone in the FreeBSD community have any suggestions as to what
> > I can try to remedy this situation?
> 
> I have seen weird results when there are odd things going on in
> /dev. Is there anything atypical about your /dev?
> -- 

Not to my knowledge -- I just did a 'sh MAKEDEV all', which did not remedy
the problem. Anyone have any other ideas as to the cause of this problem?





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