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jlliagre

I suspect that also. Answer for post #15 :-


$ ls -lL /etc/wtmpx
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 267327384 Mar 28 10:55 /etc/wtmpx
$
$
$ last -10
app-user ftp ...

Answer for post #6

$ id -un
id: illegal option -- u
Usage: id [-ap] [user]
$
$ which id
/usr/bin/id
$


But the output is different when I used this id path:-

$ /usr/xpg4/bin/id...

root@# echo "$w"
4:02pm up 195 day(s), 7:50, 1 user, load average: 5.86, 5.82, 5.72
User tty login@ idle JCPU PCPU what
wisdom pts/1 4:01pm ...

root@ # ksh
root@ # a=$(tty)
root@# echo $a
/dev/pts/5
root@ #

jlliagre

Your question was answered. It's just to display the real user. Just one username. Also, I actually thought it was a scripting problem and I had posted it on the wrong forum.

I...

we've concluded for now that the weirdness of the server must be due to the in-house passwd/authentication application that we use. It's the only server that behaves like that.

Due to policies,...

I've just tried it on another sol8 and it worked. So it means it's got to be some setting on host-1 that is making it work abnormally.

The problem is I don't know what to look for?

Hi All

I have a ksh script, which is run as the root user. At some point in the script, it needs to check for the user that is running the script. ( The real user that su to root). This is on a...

Hmmmm..... it works on most of my servers, execpt this very one. I think it must be the way this particular server was built.

It doesn't output anything now on this particular server... When I...

Very true.....
The required output is to display the real username, instead of displaying root as the user.
who am seems to work ok on my sol 10 servers, but on this sol 8, it's not. It keeps...

Great! works...thanks!:b:

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Spoke too soon, ignore my previous post.... didn't work when I su to root and...

sorry that does not work..... illegal option.

Hi

I'm trying to get the real username of any user running as root on my server. On one of my server running Sol 10, if I su to root and run who am i, it displays my username. which is what I...

Hi ctsgnb

Great, it works now.... thanks!:b: I now have two ways to run my script.

ctsgnb

This code doesn't work. It just hangs, with no output. I had to ctrl C out of it. I'm using Pravin27's example, it would be nice to know how the xargs works it out though.

Thank you Pravin27

It works like magic!:b:

Hi Gurus,

I have a file named log with 2 lines
Each line is a file name. eg

$ cat log
monday
tuesday


I need to read log and assign each output(filename) to a different variable....

thks frozentin.... much clearer now

Hi

Does anyone know what the major and minor numbers are in Solaris?