Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:30808 comp.unix.misc:1383 comp.unix.sysv386:7454 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bria!mike From: mike@bria.UUCP (Michael Stefanik) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: What is it? (was Re: Current Run-Level: How can you tell?) Message-ID: <227@bria.UUCP> Date: 27 Apr 91 21:51:38 GMT References: <1991Apr25.120917.1626@virtech.uucp> <1991Apr26.163616.15442@leland.Stanford.EDU> Reply-To: uunet!bria!mike Followup-To: comp.unix.questions Organization: MGI Group International, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 15 In an article, dkeisen@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen) writes: >I don't know about BSD, but on our Xenix box "who am i" is an easy >way to see whether the system is single-user. The drag about XENIX is that there is the capability for who -r and other such command to work correctly. Too bad that the init under XENIX is too brain dead to add those entries to /etc/utmp when it fires up. Of course, an init that truly knows nothing about /etc/inittab should be pitched out the door anyway ... -- Michael Stefanik, MGI Inc, Los Angeles | Opinions stated are never realistic Title of the week: Systems Engineer | UUCP: ...!uunet!bria!mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If MS-DOS didn't exist, who would UNIX programmers have to make fun of?