Re: coreutils: 'who' behaves strangely

2005-11-26 Thread Stefan Bellon
Vincent Rivière wrote: > > Just calling 'who' does not display > > anything at all. > Your file /var/run/utmp may be locked. Thanks a lot. > Try this : > ps -f -p `fuser /var/run/utmp` > It will show all the processes currently using the utmp file. I'll remember that for the next time, just

Re: coreutils: 'who' behaves strangely

2005-11-25 Thread Vincent Rivière
> Just calling 'who' does not display > anything at all. Your file /var/run/utmp may be locked. Try this : ps -f -p `fuser /var/run/utmp` It will show all the processes currently using the utmp file. A few days ago, I had the same problem. The command above showed me a lot of old and frozen g

coreutils: 'who' behaves strangely

2005-11-22 Thread Stefan Bellon
Since a few days I've noticed on one of my Debian machines that 'who' does not behave like it did before. Just calling 'who' does not display anything at all. Things like 'who -l' or 'who -d' work however. Any ideas why this is and how to "fix" it? -- Stefan Bellon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to