Re: running who

["Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>]

At 07:24 PM 9/19/2001, tplesco wrote:
>I have a /var/run/utmp file which remains 0 bytes.
>
>I have run 'mkdir -p /var/run && touch /var/run/utmp' but
>the utmp does not update.
>
>I would like to have the functionality of knowing who's using cygwin
>at any given moment.


Pardon me for asking but doesn't /var/run/utmp only get updated if someone
uses "login"?  If true, then I assume you're content with only seeing 
those who might actually log on with login (which is not used by default
with Cygwin).  In most Cygwin installations, I think /var/run/utmp will 
tend to be empty simply because people don't use login.


>Does anyone having a workaround?



Check out the source if you're really interested.  There's no need to 
find a workaround when there is code available to inspect and fix (as
needed).

Enjoy! :-)



Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
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