Quoting Reco (recovery...@gmail.com): > On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 11:50:17AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Reco (recovery...@gmail.com): > > > > > So, long story short, last version of 'w' which printed hostnames by > > > default should be squeeze's one, and even then they used compilation > > > flag to make it do so. > > > > I'm trying to follow this, but it doesn't seem to square with my own > > observations. > > Ok. As they say - 'there should be a logical explanation for this' :) > > > I've edited the following output to pertinent entries in context > > (you don't need my TV's hostname/IP#). > > Indeed. They are irrelevant in this case. > > > west runs jessie, alum runs wheezy. jessie first: > > > > west ~ $ w > < 'w' showing hostnames skipped > > > alum ~ $ w -i > > w: invalid option -- 'i' > > This. Since 'w' from 'procps' package clearly supports '-i' flag - it > means you use some different 'w'. Please post the output of: > > ls -al /usr/bin/w > ls -al /etc/alternatives/w
jessie first: west ~ $ ls -l /usr/bin/w /etc/alternatives/w /usr/bin/w.procps lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Oct 10 2012 /etc/alternatives/w -> /usr/bin/w.procps lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Oct 10 2012 /usr/bin/w -> /etc/alternatives/w -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17896 Mar 6 2015 /usr/bin/w.procps west ~ $ man w | grep ' 201' procps-ng May 2012 W(1) west ~ $ dpkg -L procps | grep /w /usr/share/man/de/man1/w.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/watch.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/w.procps.1.gz /usr/bin/w.procps /usr/bin/watch west ~ $ Now wheezy: alum ~ $ ls -l /usr/bin/w /etc/alternatives/w /usr/bin/w.procps lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 May 5 2014 /etc/alternatives/w -> /usr/bin/w.procps lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 May 5 2014 /usr/bin/w -> /etc/alternatives/w -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17916 Mar 28 2013 /usr/bin/w.procps alum ~ $ man w | grep ' 201' procps-ng June 2011 W(1) alum ~ $ dpkg -L procps | grep /w /usr/bin/watch /usr/bin/w.procps /usr/share/man/man1/w.procps.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/watch.1.gz /usr/share/man/de/man1/w.1.gz alum ~ $ Cheers, David.
