Not sure about the w command but the welcome message appearing twice surely must be a bug? Or is this expected behavior? I get one welcome message for 10.04.1 and one for 10.10, this is a copy/paste from the terminal:
Ubuntu 10.10 Welcome to Ubuntu! * Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/ System information as of Sun Oct 17 11:05:37 CEST 2010 System load: 0.27 Processes: 174 Usage of /: 80.8% of 23.10GB Users logged in: 1 Memory usage: 21% IP address for eth0: 192.168.0.10 Swap usage: 0% IP address for virbr0: 192.168.122.1 Graph this data and manage this system at https://landscape.canonical.com/ Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS Welcome to Ubuntu! * Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/ System information as of Sun Oct 17 09:10:08 CEST 2010 System load: 0.55 Processes: 181 Usage of /: 68.4% of 23.10GB Users logged in: 1 Memory usage: 21% IP address for eth0: 192.168.0.10 Swap usage: 0% IP address for virbr0: 192.168.122.1 Graph this data and manage this system at https://landscape.canonical.com/ -- Since update welcome message appears twice on ssh login & w command does not show any info https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/647174 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs