[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-user] oddness with w output

[Kyle O'Donnell]

All,

In case anyone else encounters this I found the solution.

w is a part of the procps packag, of which i just updated to 3.1.5.  I 
uncompressed the source and started to look at w.c and found:
(line 236 of w.c)

#ifndef W_SHOWFROM
    from = 0;
#endif

The solution was to change the 0 to a 1. poof! it worked.

I still have yet to figure out the reason why i have a user thats been 
idle 12000 days.

thanks,
--kyleo

On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Kyle O'Donnell wrote:

> All,
>
>
> When i type 'w' I am missing the FROM field:
>
>  14:55:44 up 17:32,  5 users,  load average: 0.02, 0.02, 0.00
> USER     TTY        LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
> kyleo    pts/1     Thu21    2:01   4.68s  4.67s irc
> kyleo    pts/2     Thu21   14:15   0.85s  0.84s pine
> kyleo    pts/3     Thu21    0.00s  2.94s  0.02s -/bin/tcsh
> justinb  pts/4     Thu22   12062days  0.01s  0.01s -tcsh
> emigre   pts/6     08:16   36:39   3.00s  2.99s BitchX
>
> Also if you look at the justinb user hes been idle over 12000 days..
>
> The who output shows the hosts my users are coming from but w doesn't
>
> kyleo    pts/1        Jan  9 21:25 (des:S.0)
> kyleo    pts/2        Jan  9 21:25 (des:S.1)
> kyleo    pts/3        Jan  9 21:25 (des:S.2)
> justinb  pts/4        Jan  9 22:53 (xx.xx.xx.xx)
> emigre   pts/6        Jan 10 08:16 (xx.xx.xx.xx:S.0)
>
> I just upgraded to the 2.4.19-gentoo-r10 kernel using the medium
> grsecurity settings.  Prior to this my uptime counter would reset every
> 50days.
>
> Has anyone else expereinced such oddities on their systems, have you found
> any solutions?
>
> thanks,
> --kyleo
>
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