On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 21:18 +0100, Chris Croome 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? > We are tracking this issue as a bug. Basically ... it seems that for w to continue to work, you have to have the latest version of opsnssh, audit and audit-libs installed. With those installed and a CentOS kernel, everything seems fine (Even older CentOS kernels and those from CentOS Plus). Other external kernels (some fedora ... some kernel.org) seems to break w. Here is the bug: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1245 We won't be patching code to fix this unless it is fixed from upstream. (This is one of the reasons I don't recommend building your own kernels ... but that thread is probably better left dead :) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060406/d54dc2d2/attachment-0005.sig>