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From: subbarao@tex.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao)
Subject: Re: who on BSD error?
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In article <1992Sep22.144954.20193@seq.uncwil.edu> faldor@seq.uncwil.edu (Sherman Brown) writes:
>
> Is there an error with the 'who' command on bsd? I seem to get
>who -c to work fine, but the regular 'who' doesn't. It says it can't
>find the namelist. I'm sure that I'm just forgetting to put the
>"namelist" where it is supposed to be. Any help would be greatly
Apparently, your version of who does not have the -c option. In general,
any argument to who is taken as the name of a file containing a bunch of
struct utmp's, to print out in the familiar manner. By default, this file,
or 'namelist', is /etc/utmp. You're trying to ask who to look for a file
called -c, and parse that as it would /etc/utmp.
Pretty lame diagnostic message, eh?
-Kartik