On Nov 23, 2008, at 5:52 PM, Pegasus Mc Cleaft wrote:

Hello Hackers,

I noticed something the other day that I thought was a bit weird. I had a high amount of HD activity, so I wanted to see who was on my machine. I tried using the "who" command and received no information (not even for myself).

I have found that various methods of signing in cause different behavior, presumably due to being assigned different terminal names. For instance: If I open an Xterm, or telnet into the machine, I will not see any information (Although a who -q does), however, if I SSH or sign in on the console, I get
the results I was expecting.

Am I missing something or being a bit thick? (please see below for examples)

Peg

[through a xterm]
        feathers$ who
        feathers$

[through a telnet]
        feathers$ telnet localhost
        Trying ::1...
        Connected to localhost.
        Escape character is '^]'.
        Trying SRA secure login:
        User (XXXXXX):
        Password:
        [ SRA accepts you ]

        FreeBSD/amd64 (feathers.peganest.com) (pts/2)
        <SNIP>
        You have new mail.
        feathers$ who
        feathers$

[Through a SSH connection]
        titan$ ssh feathers
        Enter passphrase for key '/home/XXXXX/.ssh/id_rsa':
        Last login: Mon Nov 24 01:45:08 2008 from localhost
        Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

        FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT (FEATHERS) #1: Sat Nov 22 16:07:04 UTC 2008
<SNIP>

        feathers$
        feathers$ who
        XXXXX              pts/3    Nov 24 01:47 (XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX)
        feathers$


`who' works perfectly fine for me on CURRENT/AMD64 synced up 3 days ago, via an ssh terminal. Can you provide more details, e.g. when was your last sync date, did you blow away your utmp directory, etc?
Thanks,
-Garrett
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