Debian bug report logs - #1616 'who' can't find utmp Package: shellutils ; Reported by: sgk@sgk.tiac.net; 22 days old. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From hermes.cam.ac.uk!and1000 Mon Oct 9 16:14:31 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0t2ROw-00064oC; Mon, 9 Oct 95 16:14 PDT Received: from black.csi.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA21087 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Mon, 9 Oct 1995 16:14:05 -0700 Received: from blue.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.34] (ident = root) by black.csi.cam.ac.uk with smtp (Smail-3.1.29.0 #36) id m0t2ROs-000CC7C; Tue, 10 Oct 95 00:14 BST Received: by blue.csi.cam.ac.uk (Smail-3.1.29.0 #36) id m0t2ROs-0003vcC; Tue, 10 Oct 95 00:14 BST Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 00:14:26 +0100 (BST) From: Austin Donnelly X-Sender: and1000@blue.csi.cam.ac.uk Reply-To: and1000@cam.ac.uk To: debian-bugs@pixar.com Subject: Bug#1616: 'who' can't find utmp Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII A recompile with libc-4.6.26-6 or later is all that's required - the path to utmp is taken from /usr/include/paths.h Austin ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to and1000@cam.ac.uk : Extra info received and forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Information forwarded to debian-devel@pixar.com : Bug#1616 ; Package shellutils . Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From sgk.tiac.net!sgk Mon Oct 9 07:09:40 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0t2Itg-000BFtC; Mon, 9 Oct 95 07:09 PDT Received: from sgk.tiac.net by pixar.com with SMTP id AA13196 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Mon, 9 Oct 1995 07:09:15 -0700 Received: from sgk.tiac.net (sgk@sgk.tiac.net [127.0.0.1]) by sgk.tiac.net (8.6.12/8.6.10) with ESMTP id KAA03188 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 1995 10:11:07 -0400 Message-Id: <199510091411.KAA03188@sgk.tiac.net> Reply-To: sgk@sgk.tiac.net To: debian-bugs@pixar.com Subject: 'who' can't find utmp Date: Mon, 09 Oct 1995 10:11:07 -0400 From: "Susan G. Kleinmann" Package: shellutils Version: 1.12-3 --------- This is an addition to a bug report #1164 stating that who --help incorrectly references /etc/[w|u]tmp. --------- 1. The man page for 'who' also says it uses /etc/utmp by default; this is incorrect and needs to be changed. 2. 'who' may have another problem (I say 'may' because I'm not sure it isn't pilot error): When installing inn on my system a while ago, it seemed wise to make a separate partition for /var. Most things seemed to go OK. But when I run 'who' now, I get the message: who: /var/adm/utmp: No such file or directory That's true. utmp is certainly not in /var/adm. It is in /var/run, which is exactly where the man pages for login and init say it ought to be. --------- Suggestion: It may be that the file defaults need to be fixed in 3 places: a) the help message for 'who' b) the man page for 'who' c) the executable for 'who' -------- I'm using dpkg-1.0.1-0 and kernel image 1.2.13-3 Best Regards, Susan Kleinmann ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to sgk@sgk.tiac.net : New bug report received and forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Report forwarded to debian-devel@pixar.com : Bug#1616 ; Package shellutils . Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 07:43:01 GMT Wed 01 Nov