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Re: Populating /var/run/utmp?
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 11:45:23 -0700
- Subject: Re: Populating /var/run/utmp?
- References: <e61s2p$den$1@sea.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
mwoehlke wrote:
> I would like to use 'w' on my Cygwin installation. I found
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-09/msg01177.html, but it only seems to
> work on one of my computers:
>
> $ echo $CYGWIN
> binmode tty ntsec
> $ w
> 13:03:11 up 5 days, 22:30, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> USER TTY LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
> $
'w' works fine for me without having "tty" in $CYGWIN. But that's
because I use rxvt. If I set CYGWIN=tty and then start "bash -li" then
"w" also shows the logged on user. Are you sure you're not trying to
set CYGWIN=tty after the first shell has already initialized? It won't
work if you do that, it has to be set before.
(BTW, adding "ntsec" to $CYGWIN is a waste of time, as this has been the
default for many years.)
Brian
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