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who shows no users nowadays on Debian

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From: Erik Auerswald <auerswal <at> unix-ag.uni-kl.de>
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Cc: 21349 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21349: who shows no users nowadays on Debian
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 09:02:50 +0200

Hi Dan,

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 07:14:41AM +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> (info "(coreutils) who invocation") says
> 
> If given no non-option arguments, ‘who’ prints the following
> information for each user currently logged on: login name, terminal
> line, login time, and remote hostname or X display.
> 
> Say if this means
> remote hostname or remote X display.
> 
> or
> 
> X display or remote hostname.
> 
> By the way, now on Debian sid:
> 
> $ who
> $ ps a
>   PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
>   593 tty7     Ss+    0:10 /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg :0 -nolisten tcp vt7
>  1310 pts/0    Ss     0:00 bash
>  1338 pts/1    Ss     0:00 su -
>  1339 pts/1    S+     0:00 -su
>  2005 tty1     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/agetty --noclear tty1 linux
>  2073 pts/0    R+     0:00 ps a

This works on a current Debian/testing system (stable as well), so it might
be a recent Debian/Sid (unstable) issue. Perhaps you want to open a bug
report there?

Thanks,
Erik

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