who on FreeBSD 8.0 - AMD64

[Garrett Cooper]

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Pegasus Mc Cleaft <ken at mthelicon.com> wrote:
> On Monday 24 November 2008 02:19:40 Garrett Cooper wrote:
>> On Nov 23, 2008, at 5:52 PM, Pegasus Mc Cleaft wrote:
>> > Hello Hackers,
>> >
> <SNIP>
>
>>
>>       `who' works perfectly fine for me on CURRENT/AMD64 synced up 3 days
>> ago, via an ssh terminal. Can you provide more details, e.g. when was
>> your last sync date, did you blow away your utmp directory, etc?
>> Thanks,
>> -Garrett
>
> Hi Garrett,
>        Its actually the other way around. If I SSH into the machine, I see my login
> in the 'who', however, if I telnet in or use a xterm I dont..
>
>        The last sync/build world/build kernel I have done was about 24 hours ago,
> however, I think the problem has been going on for a while now. I noticed it
> about a month ago and forgot about it until the other day when I tried using
> 'who' again.
>
>        I havent blown away the utmp directory (or touched it, for that matter). I
> can try clearing if, if you think it may help?
>
> Ta
> Peg

    Actually, no please don't blow it. After hearing that it occurs
only over ssh I tried with a local login and it functions exactly the
same as with the ssh terminal.
    1. What's the exit code after you try and execute who?
    2. `ls -l /var/run/utmp'? Should be set to mode 00644.
Thanks,
-Garrett