RE: Interesting problem with 'w'

Castelijn, Maurice (Castelijn.Maurice@kpmg.nl)
Wed, 30 Oct 1996 10:11:44 +0100

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>I have an Alpha UDB running RedHat 4.0 (Kernel 2.0.21 with axp-diffs)
>which has its root filesystem NFS mounted from a Sparc 20 running Solaris
>2.5. All is well, but this particular machine seems to have a problem
>with the 'w' command. Check out the idle time:
>
> 11:22am up 18:09, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.16
>USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
>shane ttyp4 blah.together.net10:35am 87days 1.35s 0.17s w
>
>Anyone have any suggestions? Other than this, the box is running great
>via NFSroot. I have several other UDB's running the same
>kernel/distribution that are not NFS-rooted and the 'w' command functions
>normally.

I don't know about the NFS thing, but if you're running a snoop daemon
(to snoop other's tty's), then that could be a reason. Perhaps that's
any help?

Maurice.
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