On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 10:50 PM Cameron Simpson <cs(a)cskk.id.au> wrote:
On 09Nov2020 22:47, Tom H <tomh0665(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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> "w" and "who" look at "/var/run/utmp".
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> "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.