Hi, On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 03:36:20AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 3/31/25 02:09, Henrik Ahlgren wrote: > > I believe /run/utmp is gone in trixie, after systemd was upgraded to > > 256.5-2. The command `w` still works fine. > no, its dns lookup fails there also.
This conversation is about the "who" command's inability to show who is currently logged in, not the second thing mentioned which was it not doing DNS lookups. The utmp database had to change because it was not year 2038 safe. who just hasn't been updated yet. The bugs and complaints for that need to go upstream, as much as anyone can complain over free software. Here is the bug report you quoted but did not read: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1080330 > Bottom line: who, or its ytmp helpers, > is incapable of reading the /etc/hosts file on systems w/o a dhcpd. This is not how processes on Linux do DNS lookups. Virtually nothing is "capable of reading the /etc/hosts file" because that's not how any of this works. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
