On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM Charles Curley < charlescur...@charlescurley.com> wrote:
> On bookworm who (GNU coreutils 9.1) operates more or less as I have > expected it to operate for several decades: it prints current logins. > E.g.: > > charles@hawk:~$ who > charles tty7 2025-03-30 11:31 (:0) > charles pts/35 2025-03-27 20:13 (192.168.100.47) > root pts/36 2025-03-27 21:48 (192.168.100.47) > charles@hawk:~$ > > On trixie who (GNU coreutils 9.5) gives me a long list of logins, most > of which predate the most recent reboot. "who -u", similarly. > On my Trixie system `who --users` only provides a carriage return and prints no information. 'who -a' only prints the last boot time. Seems like who is seriously broken. > > How do I get only the current logins? > > Also, who on bookworm works fine with no arguments. who on bookworm > requires the file to use in order to get any useful output at all, > e.g.: "who -Hu /var/log/wtmp". This might be a bug. > > Finally, I see that bug #798910, "coreutils: /usr/bin/who --lookup does > not look up ip addresses in dns", is still outstanding and a bit > annoying. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=798910 > > Thank you. > > -- > Does anybody read signatures any more? > > https://charlescurley.com > https://charlescurley.com/blog/ > > -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org/ ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀
