On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 11:31:43AM -0600, Nitebirdz wrote:
> As per the manual page: "If given one non-option argument, who uses that
> instead of /etc/utmp as the name of the file containing the record of
> users logged on." Another interesting piece of information from the man
> pages is this: "/etc/wtmp is commonly given as an argument to who to look at
> who has previously logged on", although it is not directly related to
> Zaigui's problem I think.
> In any case, perhaps the first thing he should do is check to make sure he
> does have a /etc/utmp or /etc/wtmp file in his computer. By the way, my
> command is working just fine but I still cannot find those two files (I do
> have /etc/wtmplock though, which is most likely places there while running
> the "who" command I guess). However, I do have a /var/log/wtmp file that
> must provide the information. Can anyone please help Zaigui and along the
> way clarify how the command works? Thanks a lot.
The utmp file is locate in /var/run on RedHat systems. Older
Unix systems, like SCO, use to have both utmp and wtmp in /etc. I think
you'll find that most Linux systems now have wtmp in /var/log and utmp
on /var/run.
Mike
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