Re: coreutils: 'who' behaves strangely

2005-11-26 Thread Stefan Bellon
Vincent Rivière wrote: > > Just calling 'who' does not display > > anything at all. > Your file /var/run/utmp may be locked. Thanks a lot. > Try this : > ps -f -p `fuser /var/run/utmp` > It will show all the processes currently using the utmp file. I'll remember that for the next time, just

Re: coreutils: 'who' behaves strangely

2005-11-25 Thread Vincent Rivière
> Just calling 'who' does not display > anything at all. Your file /var/run/utmp may be locked. Try this : ps -f -p `fuser /var/run/utmp` It will show all the processes currently using the utmp file. A few days ago, I had the same problem. The command above showed me a lot of old and frozen g