From: marchini@ds18.scri.fsu.edu (Juan Marchini) Subject: Re: bug in 'w' command Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1993 11:05:17 GMT
In article <23vrb1$6s8@itu1.sun.ac.za> vspr@teppic.sun.ac.za (Paul van Spronsen) writes:
>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?
actually, i'm not sure if that's the same with me, but it's been a
while since i checked. and you ARE right, that MOST of the time the
extra letter is the first letter in the hostname from which i login.
however, i tried a telnet from the linux box to itself, and logged in,
it's name begins with a 'u', but the extra letter this time was an
'l'. go figure. hmm.
i'm glad to see someone else has the problem, though.
juan