Re: procps: Regarding FROM field in "w" command

Navdeep Bhatia wrote: > The "FROM" field in output of "w" command prints the value of the > remote-host. But the output for this field can contain just 16 characters as > depicted in the code snippet (taken from w.c, release 3.2.8) below. > This truncates the val

procps: Regarding FROM field in "w" command

Hi, The "FROM" field in output of "w" command prints the value of the remote-host. But the output for this field can contain just 16 characters as depicted in the code snippet (taken from w.c, release 3.2.8) below. This truncates the value in case FROM field is an IPV6 addre

Re: w command

Remco van de Meent wrote: > On Sun, 3 May 1998, Nuno Carvalho wrote: > > : Why when i call the w command get that message ? > : > : $ w > :bad data in /var/run/utmp > : > : What would be the reason ? I already deleted that file and it still the > : same

Re: w command

On Sun, 3 May 1998, Nuno Carvalho wrote: : Why when i call the w command get that message ? : : $ w :bad data in /var/run/utmp : : What would be the reason ? I already deleted that file and it still the : same ! Maybe you're half-way an upgrade from a libc5 system to a

w command

Hi all, Why when i call the w command get that message ? $ w bad data in /var/run/utmp What would be the reason ? I already deleted that file and it still the same ! Thanks in advance. Best regards, Nuno Carvalho --- Nuno Emanuel F

the 'w' command and utmp

After upgrading various frozen packages today, I no longer show up using the 'w' command under X. Is one of the packages no longer updating utmp properly? kanga:[1]~% w 11:04am up 2 min, 0 users, load average: 0.74, 0.47, 0.18 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE J

problems with w command

The w command on a few of our servers is not working properly. I'll use two machines, verdi and frisch, to explain this although it is not isolated to these machines. Both machines have kernel 2.0.29 and procps 1.12.2 and the kernel configuration is pretty much identical (except for a coup