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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Strange BSDI Problem
Date: 18 Jun 1996 11:05:37 GMT
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entropy@newreach.net (Dave A. Flanigan) wrote:

> I have this strange problem with BSDI 2.0.
> 
> 	Everything was fine, then one day I log on and see no-one
> logged in. Not even myself. Keeping in mind that there are only 4 of
> us that log into it, is is normally just  WWW server. But even if we
> are all loged in, if we do a 'who' a 'w' and 'finger' or 'f' and it
> shows no-one. More strnageness, if I do an uptime it accually says 0
> users.

Your utmp file might be hosed (or unreadable).  Have a look at
/var/run/utmp.

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j