Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ogicse!pdxgate!parsely!percy!nerd
From: nerd@percy.rain.com (Michael Galassi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Unix `w' command not working
Message-ID: <1991Feb27.154738.26022@percy.rain.com>
Date: 27 Feb 91 15:47:38 GMT
References: <91057.115121SLVQC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Organization: Percy's UNIX, Portland, OR.
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In article <91057.115121SLVQC@CUNYVM.BITNET> SLVQC@CUNYVM.BITNET
	(Salvatore Saieva) writes:
>I recently installed NeXTStep v2.0 and the Unix `w' command no
>longer works. (It used to work under v1.0.) Whenever I try to run
>w I get the message ``No namelist''. Does anyone know what this
>message means? Any ideas why it doesn't work?

Sounds like /mach has been striped or something similar.  This is not
the situation on all 2.0 systems, at least not mine, BUT...  I just
dialed up my cube at home (2.0/030) and did a 'w', it showed me as
idle 15 days on the console, I know I checked my mail this morning,
infact, the system's uptime is only ~3 days.  Has my time perception
gotten warped like all else about me or is this a 'feature'?
-- 
Michael Galassi				| nerd@percy.rain.com
MS-DOS:  The ultimate PC virus.		| ...!tektronix!percy!nerd