Uptime and w failing to report correct info?

[Gregory Nowak]

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It's possible that your /var/run/utmp might have gotten corrupted for
some reason. If you're really sure there are no other users on your
system, you could do:

rm /var/run/utmp
touch /var/run/utmp
chgrp utmp /var/run/utmp
chmod 664 /var/run/utmp

Greg


On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 10:01:24AM -0700, Zachary Kline wrote:
> Hi All,
> I'm curious as to why uptime and w both seem to think there are more
> users on my system than actually are logged in.  The actual time
> callculation seems accurate. 
> I'm running archlinux with Speakup.  As far as I'm concerned everything
> else on this system works as expected.  I'm just wondering about this
> tiny inconsistency.
> I've read up on utmp and wtmp, but don't know what programs besides the
> login program might have cause to mess with them.  
> Any info would be appreciated.
> Best and thanks,
> Zack.
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> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 

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