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Re: 'w' and 'uptime' stopped working

On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 04:11:14PM -0700, Justin C. Walker wrote:
> You could check the permissions on, or presence of, /var/run/utmp and
> /dev/kmem. The 'w' command should be owned by root/kmem, and be setgid.

Looks like 'w' got changed to group 'wheel' (which is strange). I changed it back to 'kmem' and it works again.

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 >Re: 'w' and 'uptime' stopped working (From: "Daniel J. Luke" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: 'w' and 'uptime' stopped working (From: "Justin C. Walker" <email@hidden>)



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