bin/76089: The "-n" option in /usr/bin/w is broken

Masachika ISHIZUKA ishizuka at ish.org
Sun Feb 13 23:17:46 PST 2005


>>>  IMHO to be more robust, we should make utmp to hold an IP address
>>> instead of a hostname and change all applications that use it. As
>>> bonus it will fix a delay on login when resolving does not work.
>>> And last(1) will show more useful IP address instead of changable
>>> hostname.
>
  [snip]
> 
> Actually, it would be nice to log both.  That's what I have done
> for some printer-related statistics (not sure if I did that in
> FreeBSD, but I do that for production use at RPI).

  Hi, this is ishizuka at ish.org.

  Please you should think IPv6 address that may be 39 bytes.
I connected to sshd from a remote computer but w -n displayed IPv4
address. It was not good for me.

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ishizuka at ish.org


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