Re: Keywords: who ecgs-1.1.1 glibc-2.0.7

Re: Keywords: who ecgs-1.1.1 glibc-2.0.7

[N8TM]

In a message dated 2/16/99 9:25:03 AM Pacific Standard Time,
chad@Gneiss.geology.wisc.edu writes:

<< After tackling the quest of converting to glibc from libc5, much
 hair-pulling & frustration, I finally thought I had a stable working
 combination of egcs and glibc only to find that 'who', 'w', and others do
 not work correctly.  'who' and other programs that are looking for users,
 like 'talk', cannot see all the logged in users.  Strangely enough, when
 an xterm is spawned it's user can be seen with w/who/talk.  I remember
 seeing messages in a list archive addressing this issue but cannot find
 them again.  Any ideas would be much appreciated, and apologies if this is
 misdirected.  
 -Chad >>
I'm sure I'm a minority opinion, but I went the other way, seeing that
egcs/g77 is closer to bullet-proof running under libc5.  As others have seen,
egcs somehow detects the gnulibc1 possibility when you have some of each
present, and that hasn't bothered me.  When a package dependent on libc5
doesn't run, I re-install it, and so far that seems to work, without impacting
egcs.  The mysterious consequences of mixing varieties under linux (not to
mention Windoze).

Re: Keywords: who ecgs-1.1.1 glibc-2.0.7

[N8TM]

In a message dated 2/16/99 9:25:03 AM Pacific Standard Time,
chad@Gneiss.geology.wisc.edu writes:

<< After tackling the quest of converting to glibc from libc5, much
 hair-pulling & frustration, I finally thought I had a stable working
 combination of egcs and glibc only to find that 'who', 'w', and others do
 not work correctly.  'who' and other programs that are looking for users,
 like 'talk', cannot see all the logged in users.  Strangely enough, when
 an xterm is spawned it's user can be seen with w/who/talk.  I remember
 seeing messages in a list archive addressing this issue but cannot find
 them again.  Any ideas would be much appreciated, and apologies if this is
 misdirected.  
 -Chad >>
I'm sure I'm a minority opinion, but I went the other way, seeing that
egcs/g77 is closer to bullet-proof running under libc5.  As others have seen,
egcs somehow detects the gnulibc1 possibility when you have some of each
present, and that hasn't bothered me.  When a package dependent on libc5
doesn't run, I re-install it, and so far that seems to work, without impacting
egcs.  The mysterious consequences of mixing varieties under linux (not to
mention Windoze).

Re: Keywords: who ecgs-1.1.1 glibc-2.0.7

[Andreas Jaeger]

>>>>> Chad  writes:

 > After tackling the quest of converting to glibc from libc5, much
 > hair-pulling & frustration, I finally thought I had a stable working
 > combination of egcs and glibc only to find that 'who', 'w', and others do
 > not work correctly.  'who' and other programs that are looking for users,
 > like 'talk', cannot see all the logged in users.  Strangely enough, when
 > an xterm is spawned it's user can be seen with w/who/talk.  I remember
 > seeing messages in a list archive addressing this issue but cannot find
 > them again.  Any ideas would be much appreciated, and apologies if this is
 > misdirected.  
 > -Chad

Read the glibc2 FAQ which comes with glibc 2.0.7:
2.14.   Programs like `logname', `top', `uptime' `users', `w' and
        `who', show incorrect information about the (number of)
        users on my system.  Why?

Andreas
-- 
 Andreas Jaeger   aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de    jaeger@informatik.uni-kl.de
  for pgp-key finger ajaeger@aixd1.rhrk.uni-kl.de

Keywords: who ecgs-1.1.1 glibc-2.0.7

[Chad]

After tackling the quest of converting to glibc from libc5, much
hair-pulling & frustration, I finally thought I had a stable working
combination of egcs and glibc only to find that 'who', 'w', and others do
not work correctly.  'who' and other programs that are looking for users,
like 'talk', cannot see all the logged in users.  Strangely enough, when
an xterm is spawned it's user can be seen with w/who/talk.  I remember
seeing messages in a list archive addressing this issue but cannot find
them again.  Any ideas would be much appreciated, and apologies if this is
misdirected.  
-Chad

P.S. Is there a search-able archive for the egcs@egcs list?

Re: Keywords: who ecgs-1.1.1 glibc-2.0.7

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Chad wrote:
> P.S. Is there a search-able archive for the egcs@egcs list?

There is. Check http://egcs.cygnus.com/lists.html , where you should find
a link....

Gerald
-- 
Gerald Pfeifer (Jerry)      Vienna University of Technology
pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at   http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/

Re: Keywords: who ecgs-1.1.1 glibc-2.0.7

[Andreas Jaeger]

>>>>> Chad  writes:

 > After tackling the quest of converting to glibc from libc5, much
 > hair-pulling & frustration, I finally thought I had a stable working
 > combination of egcs and glibc only to find that 'who', 'w', and others do
 > not work correctly.  'who' and other programs that are looking for users,
 > like 'talk', cannot see all the logged in users.  Strangely enough, when
 > an xterm is spawned it's user can be seen with w/who/talk.  I remember
 > seeing messages in a list archive addressing this issue but cannot find
 > them again.  Any ideas would be much appreciated, and apologies if this is
 > misdirected.  
 > -Chad

Read the glibc2 FAQ which comes with glibc 2.0.7:
2.14.   Programs like `logname', `top', `uptime' `users', `w' and
        `who', show incorrect information about the (number of)
        users on my system.  Why?

Andreas
-- 
 Andreas Jaeger   aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de    jaeger@informatik.uni-kl.de
  for pgp-key finger ajaeger@aixd1.rhrk.uni-kl.de

Re: Keywords: who ecgs-1.1.1 glibc-2.0.7

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Chad wrote:
> P.S. Is there a search-able archive for the egcs@egcs list?

There is. Check http://egcs.cygnus.com/lists.html , where you should find
a link....

Gerald
-- 
Gerald Pfeifer (Jerry)      Vienna University of Technology
pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at   http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/

Keywords: who ecgs-1.1.1 glibc-2.0.7

[Chad]

After tackling the quest of converting to glibc from libc5, much
hair-pulling & frustration, I finally thought I had a stable working
combination of egcs and glibc only to find that 'who', 'w', and others do
not work correctly.  'who' and other programs that are looking for users,
like 'talk', cannot see all the logged in users.  Strangely enough, when
an xterm is spawned it's user can be seen with w/who/talk.  I remember
seeing messages in a list archive addressing this issue but cannot find
them again.  Any ideas would be much appreciated, and apologies if this is
misdirected.  
-Chad

P.S. Is there a search-able archive for the egcs@egcs list?