From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephan van Hienen Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 13:08:22 +0000 Subject: Some problems using ultalinux (who /group/ps) Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org ok here to report some prob: using who fails after some days running the system : [ddx@ddx ddx]$ w 3:00pm up 10 days, 22:29, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.01 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT ddx ttya0 e-pop029:S.0 23May98 1:07 27:28 27:28 BitchX skinner ttya1 alkmr1-p52:S.0 25May98 2:20 3:27 3:27 BitchX Skinner ddx ttya2 e-pop029:S.1 2:56pm 6.00s 0.19s 0.16s pine ddx ttya3 e-pop029:S.3 3:00pm 0.00s 0.08s 0.05s w ddx ttya4 e-pop029:S.2 26May98 59:40 1:14 1:14 BitchX DDX [ddx@ddx ddx]$ who Segmentation fault (core dumped) and what i think (could be from the same problem:) but this never works : [ddx@ddx ddx]$ ps ta0 PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND No processes available. [ddx@ddx ddx]$ ps ta1 PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND No processes available. while it should give the processes and completely other thing: [ddx@ddx ddx]$ id uidP0(ddx) gid0(users) groupsC808 hmms from passwd file : ddx:x:500:100:DDX,,,,:/home/ddx:/bin/bash and in group file is nothing of user ddx also gives same problem while being som1 else : [storm@ddx storm]$ id uidR4(storm) gid 0(guests) groupsC808 and as root : [root@ddx /root]# id uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),1(bin),2(daemon),0(root),0(root),0(root),0(root) but why gives it so much root groups ? from group file : [root@ddx /root]# cat /etc/group root::0:root bin::1:root,bin,daemon daemon::2:root,bin,daemon sys::3:root,bin,adm adm::4:root,adm,daemon tty::5: disk::6:root lp::7:daemon,lp mem::8: kmem::9: wheel::10:root mail::12:mail news::13:news uucp::14:uucp man::15: games::20: gopher::30: dip::40: ftp::50: nobody::99: users::100:fbw,jantjo guests::200:dezmond (ps using shadow passwds)