Command 'w' gives no user output

[Martin Sommerhein]

Ok, after cvsuping stable again + making a new world there was no
improvement.  But by accident I learned the reason to my confusion
about the output of 'w' in various contexts:

'w'   Shows users logged in on virtual console terminals
      ttyvN and on pseudo terminals ttypN (ala xterm). 
      BUT, it does NOT show users logged in on KDE Konsole terminals!

I find this a bit inconsistent, but I guess it is due to KDE's
architecture that KDE's terminal windows don't show up(?).
Now I at least now the source to my confusion.

Regards,
Martin


Martin Sommerhein <pms2-freebsd at sommerhein.com> writes:

> Alexey Karguine <bm at netmaster.ru> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:33:37 +0200 Martin Sommerhein <pms2-freebsd at sommerhein.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > $ w
> > >  6:29pm  up  9:41, 0 users, load averages: 0,01 0,02 0,00
> > > USER             TTY      FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
> > 
> > > This is on a recently upgraded 4.10-STABLE machine.  Just after the
> > > upgrade the command worked fine, but today it suddenly started to give
> > > no user output.  Anyone have any clue of what the cause may be and how
> > > to fix it?
> > 
> > > Or do I have a cracker on my system?
> > 
> > > The other recently upgraded 4.10-STABLE machines work fine (same make
> > > world).
> >  Are you sure, that the version of kernel and the version jf the world
> >  are the same? 
> > 
> >  Try to run 'uname -a' and see at result.
> 
> It gives ... 4.10-STABLE FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE #0: Sun Jun 20 23:30:46
> CEST 2004...
> 
> There is no difference in output for root and ordinary users.  Maybe the
> simplest is to just do another make world cycle and see if that helps.
> I have checked and the w program on the other machines are exactly the
> same.  I even copied one over and ran that, but same problem.  An md5
> message digest gives: 
> 
> $ md5 /usr/bin/w
> MD5 (/usr/bin/w) = 4896e7d129e3d5c4eb26000ab9be68aa
> 
> Thanks,
> Martin
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