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>>>>> Chad writes:
> After tackling the quest of converting to glibc from libc5, much
> hair-pulling & frustration, I finally thought I had a stable working
> combination of egcs and glibc only to find that 'who', 'w', and others do
> not work correctly. 'who' and other programs that are looking for users,
> like 'talk', cannot see all the logged in users. Strangely enough, when
> an xterm is spawned it's user can be seen with w/who/talk. I remember
> seeing messages in a list archive addressing this issue but cannot find
> them again. Any ideas would be much appreciated, and apologies if this is
> misdirected.
> -Chad
Read the glibc2 FAQ which comes with glibc 2.0.7:
2.14. Programs like `logname', `top', `uptime' `users', `w' and
`who', show incorrect information about the (number of)
users on my system. Why?
Andreas
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