Devuan bug report logs - #900
procps: w does not query elogind for sessions

Package: procps; Maintainer for procps is Devuan Dev <devuan-dev@lists.dyne.org>; Source for procps is src:procps.

Reported by: Andrew Bower <andrew@bower.uk>

Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2025 22:50:01 UTC

Severity: grave

Found in version 2:4.0.4-8devuan1

Fixed in version 2.41-5devuan2

Done: dak@devuan.org

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Subject: Re: bug#900: procps: w does not query elogind for sessions
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On Fri, Aug 08, 2025 at 11:06:30PM +0100, Andrew Bower wrote:
> https://git.devuan.org/devuan/util-linux/pulls/1

Thanks

Isn't

-	log_utmp(&cxt);
+	log_utmp(&cxt);

no-op?

Do we need to restore the lastlog and btmp entries as well?

Perhaps we just drop the whole patch?

Mark

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Devuan bug report logs - #900 procps: w does not query elogind for sessions

Devuan bug report logs - #900
procps: w does not query elogind for sessions