On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM Timothy M Butterworth < timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 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? >> > Use the w command on Trixie: tmb@debian-hp:~$ w 04:56:49 up 2 days, 3:26, 2 users, load average: 0.09, 0.17, 0.17 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT tmb tty1 - Sat01 2days 0.07s 0.07s /usr/bin/startplasma-wayland tmb - Sat01 3:24m 0.00s 2.41s /usr/lib/systemd/systemd --user > >> 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/ > ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀ > -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org/ ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀
