Solaris 9 output from 'who' differs from Solaris 8 1

[stjen]

Hi there,

In Solaris 8, the output from the who command is :

> who
user1 pts/2 Jan 12 13:48 myserver.com

In Solaris 9, I no longer get where the connection is coming from, therefore, making it difficult to set the DISPLAY in the users profile.

> who
user1 pts/2 Jan 12 13:48

I have looked at all the switches and both the /usr/bin/who and /usr/xpg4/who commands. Any ideas?
TIA

 

[daFranze]

well, my Solaris 9 Sparc work fine...!?
I've just edited the hostnames/domainnames

fp@SPQR:~: rsh walmart -l root
Password: 
Last login: Mon Jan  3 13:26:14 from spqr.[i]mydomain[/i]

# uname -a
SunOS walmart 5.9 Generic_112233-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-80
# who
root       pts/13       Jan 13 12:32    (spqr.[i]mydomain[/i])
oracle     dtremote     Jan 10 08:36    ([i]hostname[/i]:0)
# exit
Connection to walmart closed.
fp@SPQR:~: who
fp         dtremote     Jan 13 09:14    ([i]otherhostname[/i]:0)
root       console      Dec 27 15:29
fp@SPQR:~: uname -a
SunOS SPQR 5.9 Generic_112233-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R
fp@SPQR:~:

Best Regards, Franz
--
Solaris System Manager from Munich, Germany
I used to work for Sun Microsystems Support (EMEA) for 5 years

 

[bfitzmai]

Is the who command aliased on the Solaris 9 box?

 

[stjen]

Thanks for the feedback...I suspect it's in my hardening. I will track it down and post the resolution.

 

[stjen]

I tracked this problem down to a patch bug. The 113273-08 patch broke the who and last commands from populating the ip/hostname. Patch 113273-10 fixes this issue.

It was only happening on my Solaris 9 servers as this patch was only for Solaris 9's SSH.

 

[KenCunningham]

Thanks for posting back with the solution, have a star.