Re: [CentOS] w stopped working after upgrading procps

On 4/6/06, Chris Croome chris@webarchitects.co.uk wrote:

Hi

I have just installed a lot of updates on a CentOS 4 box and w appears to have stopped working -- this machine has 3 or 4 people connected via ssh, yet this is all that is outputted:

# w 20:46:32 up 301 days, 3:21, 0 users, load average: 0.02, 0.03, 0.04 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT

"rpmverify procps" returns nothing so the package hasn't been messed with.

I don't want to reboot the server -- does any have any suggestions what could be done to get w working again?

What kernel are you running, and which version version of procps are you running?

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