Subject: ftpwho problem

From: "George D. Gal" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 09:19:10 -0400 (EDT)

I've noticed on my solaris 2.4 system a problem with the ftpwho command, 
 The output comes as follows:
 
 Service class all: 
  8 S     0 19216   116 19  47 20 fc75fcc0    339 fc4e1816 ?        0:00 ftpd
    -   1 users (  0 maximum)
 
 does anyone have any idea why the username and hostname is not converted?, 
 or has anyone seen any problems with this before and if so is there an 
 easy solution?

-George

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From: [email-masked] (Koos van den Hout _U nix and we all_)
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 16:19:28 +0200 (MET DST)

>  or has anyone seen any problems with this before and if so is there an 

Solaris doesn't support processes that change their own title, so ftpwho
cannot show it.

                                                Grtx. KH

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From: Dan Stromberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 09:31:41 -0700

> Solaris doesn't support processes that change their own title, so ftpwho

bingy-strombrg> uname -a
SunOS bingy.acs.uci.edu 5.5 Generic_103093-02 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-5
bingy-strombrg> /usr/bin/ps -ef | grep sendmail
    root   258     1  0   Apr 12 ?        0:01 /usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q1h
strombrg 14583  5621  1 09:28:33 pts/6    0:00 grep sendmail
bingy-strombrg> /usr/ucb/ps auxww | grep sendmail
strombrg 14585  0.2  0.9  800  572 pts/6    S 09:28:40  0:00 grep sendmail
root       258  0.0  1.0 2032  592 ?        S   Apr 12  0:00 sendmail: accepting connections
bingy-strombrg> 

In short, Solaris 2.x does and doesn't - it depends on which "ps" you use.