From: vspr@teppic.sun.ac.za (Paul van Spronsen) Subject: Re: bug in 'w' command Date: 7 Aug 1993 09:06:41 GMT
Juan Marchini (marchini@ds18.scri.fsu.edu) wrote:
: sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but it looks like there is a bug
: somewhere that 'w' looks around.
: here is a clip of what it looks like when i 'w' on my linux box:
: -----
: 9:50am up 18:23, 5 users, load average: 0.02, 0.01, 0.00
: User tty login@ idle JCPU PCPU what
: dwyer tty1 Thu 4pm 16:59 4 (startx)
: dwyer ttyp1 Thu 4pm 16:36 (tcsh)
: dwyer ttyp0 Thu 4pm 17:02 (tcsh)
: marchinifttyp2 8:19am 10 -
: marchinifttyp3 9:37am -
: -----
: but as you should see from my post, my name is NOT 'marchinif', it's
: marchini (besides can you have a name more than 8 characters in
: linux?) anyway, i checked /dev and didn't find the fttyp[2/3]
Lemme guess... "marchini" was logged in from a remote machine whose
name starts with an "f"? Hmm, I've noticed this problem doesn't
occur if a user with a long login logs in from the console. Did you
notice the same behaviour?