Vincent Rivière <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have problems with the who command. > Sometimes (once a week ?), the list of users shown by the who command gets > frozen, and is no more updated as the users logs in/out. > If I look at the last modification time of the file /var/run/utmp, I can see > that it is no more upated. > If I reboot, the the who command works again, for one week, then freeze > again. > The problem may appear when a lot of users (>20) open a Gnome session at the > same time on X terminals.
That sounds like one of the problems I worked around in xterm. If the update is not using all of the information, it will modify an obsolete entry in utmp. Perhaps you should report a bug for gnome-terminal. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
