Problems with whowatch on AMD64

[Wesley Shields]

On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 01:52:53PM -0400, stan wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 12:08:05PM -0400, Wesley Shields wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 08:51:57AM -0400, stan wrote:
> > > whowatch does not seem to work properly on my 6.1 CURRENT
> > > amd64 systems. Is this a known problem? Is there a workaround?
> > 
> > I just built and installed it on 6.1-RELEASE-p5 and it appears to run
> > fine at first glance.  Can you give more information into the exact
> > problem you are seeing?
> > 
> When I start it, I get lines that look like this:
> 
> can't access   stan      ttyp1  r9sbal    
> 
> For all users.
> 
> Presing "t" gives me this:
> 
> 3 users: (0 local, 0 telnet, 0 ssh, 3 other)                                  load: 0.00, 0.00,
> 0.001 processes
> 1 ? - -

I get the same thing on AMD64 but not i386.

Unfortunately I don't know anything about whowatch or how it works.
Have you tried contacting the author regarding this problem?  At the
very least I would send a PR with a patch to mark it as broken on AMD64.

-- WXS