On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 10:50 PM Cameron Simpson cs@cskk.id.au wrote:
On 09Nov2020 22:47, Tom H tomh0665@gmail.com wrote:
"w" and "who" look at "/var/run/utmp".
"last" looks at "/var/log/wtmp".
Thank you for this correction, brain fade on my part.
You're welcome. The only reason that I remember this mismarch between _w_ho and _w_tmp is that I had a brain fart in a discussion at work and ran "ktruss who" (on NetBSD) to find out which *tmp file was being read.