Bug 27068

Summary: w and who do not show users / utmp stays 0
Product: Base System Reporter: tronik <tronik>
Component: binAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 4.3-STABLE   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description tronik 2001-05-03 23:50:00 UTC 
/var/run/utmp is not being written by anything except screen.
w and who do not show users who're logged in.

How-To-Repeat: using stable sources i've built and installed world 3 times with the same problems.
Comment 1 dwmalone 2001-05-04 09:49:39 UTC 
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 05:23:45PM -0500, tronik@vectori.net wrote:

> >Description:
> /var/run/utmp is not being written by anything except screen.
> w and who do not show users who're logged in.
> >How-To-Repeat:
> using stable sources i've built and installed world 3 times with the same problems.

How do your users log in (telnet, ftp, ssh, X, ...)?

Can you check the permissions on utmp - here they are:

% ls -lo /var/run/utmp
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  - 2552 May  4 09:22 /var/run/utmp

	David.
Comment 2 dd freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-06-19 02:26:36 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Most likely pilot error; *a lot* more people would be complaining otherwise. 
If it is indeed a problem, please file another PR with a lot more details.