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Re: who fails
- To: <dmeans at bellsouth dot net>
- Subject: Re: who fails
- From: "Sonic Junior" <mphalpin at iag dot net>
- Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 00:02:00 -0400
- Cc: "GNU Win 32" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
Who requires current files in the /var/run directory, which are not
created by default. However, Sergey Okhapkin says an upcoming update should
fix that. It should be available in the next few days. ;)
SJ
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> From: David Means <dmeans@bellsouth.net>
> To: Billinghurst, David <David.Billinghurst@restech.cra.com.au>
> Cc: 'gnu-win32@cygnus.com'
> Subject: Re: who fails
> Date: Thursday, July 31, 1997 12:50 PM
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> Billinghurst, David wrote:
> >
> > The b18 version of who.exe gives me:
> >
> > bash$ who
> > who: /var/run/utmp: No such file or directory
> > bash$ who am i
> > who: /var/run/utmp: No such file or directory
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> { snip }
>
> utmp holds accounting information on unix systems. There's no such file
> (that I'm aware of) for Windows. I could ramble on about it's internal
> structure, but the Solaris man page describes it better than I.
>
> See attached.
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> :-)
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> --
>
> David Means
> mailto:dmeans@bellsouth.net
>
>
> utmp(4) File Formats utmp(4)
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> NAME
> utmp, wtmp - utmp and wtmp entry formats
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> SYNOPSIS
> #include <utmp.h>
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> DESCRIPTION
> utmp and wtmp hold user and accounting information for com-
> mands such as who, write, and login. These files have the
> following structure, defined in <utmp.h>:
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> #define UTMP_FILE "/var/adm/utmp"
> #define WTMP_FILE "/var/adm/wtmp"
> #define ut_name ut_user
>
> struct utmp {
> char ut_user[8]; /* user login name */
> char ut_id[4]; /* /sbin/inittab id (created by
*/
> /* process that puts entry in
utmp) */
> char ut_line[12]; /* device name (console, lnxx)
*/
> short ut_pid; /* process id */
> short ut_type; /* type of entry */
> struct exit_status {
> short e_termination; /* process termination status */
> short e_exit; /* process exit status */
> } ut_exit; /* exit status of a process
> /* marked as DEAD_PROCESS */
> time_t ut_time; /* time entry was made */
> };
> /* Definitions for ut_type */
> #define EMPTY 0
> #define RUN_LVL 1
> #define BOOT_TIME 2
> #define OLD_TIME 3
> #define NEW_TIME 4
> #define INIT_PROCESS 5 /* process spawned by "init" */
> #define LOGIN_PROCESS 6 /* a "getty" process waiting for
login */
> #define USER_PROCESS 7 /* a user process */
> #define DEAD_PROCESS 8
> #define ACCOUNTING 9
> #define UTMAXTYPE ACCOUNTING /* max legal value of ut_type */
> /* Below are special strings or formats used in the "ut_line" */
> /* field when accounting for something other than a process. */
> /* No string for the ut_line field can be more than 11 chars + */
> /* a null character in length. */
> #define RUNLVL_MSG "run-level %c"
> #define BOOT_MSG "system boot"
> #define OTIME_MSG "old time"
> #define NTIME_MSG "new time"
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> FILES
> /var/adm/utmp
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> utmp(4) File Formats utmp(4)
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> /var/adm/wtmp
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> SEE ALSO
> login(1), who(1), write(1)
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