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From: redhat-install-list-bounces@(protected)
[mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces@(protected)] On Behalf Of Mark
McCulligh
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 3:10 PM
To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
Subject: Re: The who command
Rick Stevens wrote:
>On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 13:55 -0400, Mark McCulligh wrote:
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>>Rick Stevens wrote:
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>>>On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 11:55 -0400, Mark McCulligh wrote:
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>>>>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.
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>>I have tried using the root user. The wtmp file does exist but is
>>blank. Any ideas?
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>>
>
>When you say "blank", what do you mean? Remember that it's a binary
>file, so "cat" or "vi" are liable to spit out garbage or nothing.
>
>Can you post an "ls -l" of it? It should look something like this:
>
>[root@(protected) ~]# ls -l /var/log/wtmp
>-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 364416 Jun 27 15:42 /var/log/wtmp
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>
This is what I get:
[root@(protected) log]# lis -l /var/log/wtmp
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 0 Jun 1 04:02 /var/log/wtmp
There is also a wtmp.1 file that also size 0.
Mark.
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How much free space is there on the file system that has the utmp and
wtmp files? Some system use to keep the utmp and wtmp file in /etc and
later they were changed to symbolic links to other locations such as
/var/log. So some commands may look in the /etc directory and some
commands may look in /var/log. If the symbolic link has been deleted
then the data may be in /etc and the who command is looking in /var/log
for the files.
Jack Allen
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