GNU bug report logs - #21349
who shows no users nowadays on Debian

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>

Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 23:33:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #35 received at 21349 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>,
 Erik Auerswald <auerswal <at> unix-ag.uni-kl.de>
Cc: 21349 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
Subject: Re: bug#21349: who shows no users nowadays on Debian
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2015 11:08:48 +0000

On 27/08/15 15:46, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> All I know is I also filed
> http://bugs.debian.org/796942 w shows no users even though I must...
> http://bugs.debian.org/796943 wall can't write to anybody nowadays
> 
> All I know is all this stuff should be updated to still work with the
> latest Unix/Linux. Otherwise after every few years one will need xwho and
> ywho and zwho just to check who's around...

A related issue with gnome-terminal on Fedora 23
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1280724
where that doesn't update /var/run/utmp

cheers,
Pádraig
This bug report was last modified 6 years and 272 days ago.

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