 | | | The who command | The who command 2006-06-29 - By Mark McCulligh
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Rick Stevens wrote:
>On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 11:55 -0400, Mark McCulligh wrote:
>
>
>>Hi Group,
>>
>>When I log into my system and run the who command I get no users. If I
>>look at my uptime is says 0 users. Plus if I view the lastlog file it
>>looks like it is corrupt. How I am fix this?
>>
>>
>
>"who" is based on what's in /var/log/utmp or /var/log/wtmp. If one of
>those files is not present, who can't report on users. However,
>/var/log/wtmp is MANDATORY on Linux and is created by init if it does
>not exist.
>
>
I have tried using the root user. The wtmp file does exist but is
blank. Any ideas?
>Now, have you tried "who" as the root user? You should see AT LEAST
>your login. If you see nothing if you run "who" as a normal user,
>then /var/log/wtmp is not set world-readable. If you wish to allow
>normal users to run "who", then do this as the root user:
>
> # chmod ugo+r /var/log/wtmp
>
>and it should work.
>
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