Thanks a lot for your information. I guess it is the gnome thing, as was
also pointed out by somebody the other day.
On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 27, 2000 at 06:21:17PM +1100, Danny wrote:
>
> > The command is who username
>
> Bzzzttt... Wrong answer...
>
> I suggest doing a "man who" and finding out what it really does.
>
> Just running "who" should provide a list of everyone who is
> currently logged into the system. This is derived from the /var/run/utmp
> file. An optional parameter is to specify an alternate "utmp" style file
> such as /var/log/wtmp, which would give you a dump of who had logged
> in during the period of time covered by that file.
>
> Another set of option parameters is the unique sequence "who am i"
> which returns your user name and terminal identifier for that shell.
>
> > I hope that sufficently answered your question
>
> The real answer to the question that was asked is to look at a
> couple of things. The permissions on /var/run/utmp may be wrong and may
> be refusing read permission to you. The programs in question (login
> programs such as gdm, xterm, ETerm, gnome-terminal or such) may not
> be properly updating utmp (this might indicate a version skew problem in
> the installation). You may have been broken into and the intruder may
> have replaced your programs with "root kit" versions which are not
> providing/displaying that information.
>
> Check the time of last modification of your /var/run/utmp file
> and see if it's getting properly updated.
>
> Playing with "gnome-terminal" from RedHat 6.1, it appears that it
> is NOT updating /var/run/utmp properly. This should be considered a bug
> in gnome-terminal, and possibly a security problem. Personally, I
> prefer Eterm or xterm. Doing a "who" on my system shows all the users
> that are using xterm or Eterm and none of the ones using gnome-terminal.
>
> If it's a problem with gnome-terminal, then the solution is to
> report the bug and then quit using gnome-terminal. There are equally
> viable, usable, terminal programs which don't have this bug.
>
> > Looking forwad to your feedback
>
> > dannyh
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>
> > On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Zaigui Wang wrote:
> > > I sent out this message sometime ago but did not get much response.
> > > Someone on the list did point out that it has to do with the GNome
> > > manager, but no remedy was suggested.
> > >
> > > Can anybody help please?
> > >
> > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > > Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 02:12:34 -0600 (CST)
> > > From: Zaigui Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > > Subject: "who" command does not produce any output?
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> > > I just noticed that the "who" command will nto produce any output. What
> > > could be the problem? I am using rh6.1.
> > >
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