Current Run-Level: How can you tell?
Conor P. Cahill
cpcahil at virtech.uucp
Thu Apr 25 22:09:17 AEST 1991
schwartz at groucho.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz) writes:
>Ernie Englehart writes:
>| The command "who -r" does the trick.
>Bizarre. Why stick that in the "who" command? I guess "cat" and "ls"
>have too many options and "who" needed some... :-)
I know this doesn't make much sense from the user's viewpoint, but from
the programmers viewpoint it may:
The reson is that the information is in the /etc/utmp file and who
is one of the few programs that processes this file.
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