On 2026-07-23 12:33 -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
> At Thu, 23 Jul 2026 10:12:31 -0400 Greg Wooledge <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 23, 2026 at 09:15:05 -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
>> > On a fresh install of trixie (Debian 13), I am getting this message.
>> > Where is
>> > it coming from?
>> >
>> > The message is:
>> >
>> > cannot stat /var/run/utmp. Please "unset watch".
>>
>> It would help enormously if you told us what command you ran to produce
>> the message.
>
> I'm not running any partitular command. This message occurs at every shell
> prompt. I do have a set prompt in my .cshrc (I am using tcsh as my shell):
>
> #
> # set prompt
> #
> set me = `whoami`
> if ("$me" != "root") set prompt="`hostname`% "
> if ("$me" == "root") set prompt="`hostname`# "
> #
The prompt is irrelevant, but apparently you have also "set watch" in
your .cshrc and should drop that, as the original message suggests.
Cheers,
Sven
