Thankyou!! I have asked 5 different times on different debian lists to get that anwser. It works too (i did need to do the reboot BTW)
Thanks again! --Eric (udjat) On 6 Jan 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: » In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, » Christian Hammers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: » >Hi ! » > » >Since updating to the hamm (libc6) version (and maybe also before) my » >"last", "w" and "who" do not work !!! » » 1. You need to update ALL your packages to hamm » 2. Reboot if you haven't done that already » 3. You need to move the wtmp file and truncate the utmp file: » cd /var/log » mv wtmp wtmp.libc5 » touch wtmp » cd /var/run » cp /dev/null utmp » 4. You might want to reboot again to make sure » » This is because the "struct utmp" and thus the utmp and wtmp "databases" » are different between libc5 and libc6 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .