[SunHELP] strange 'who am i' problem

[Eddie Watkins]

Solved it using 'tty | cut -d"/" -f4 >file.out'

Eddie Watkins
The Moray Council
email: eddie.watkins at moray.gov.uk
tel: 01343 563247

>
>Hi
>
>I am having a strange problem with one of the logins on our 
>server that was
>recently upgraded to Solaris 8.  If I enter the command 'who am i' the
>following line is displayed.
>
>watkine    /dev/pts/16       Apr  3 13:49
>
>But, if i cat this to a file the file only shows
>
>watkine         .      Apr  3 13:49
>
>
>Another user displays the following to both the screen and any 
>file it is
>redirected to.
>
>ops    pts/16       Apr  3 13:49    (user_pc)
>
>Both users are running the korn shell and are in the same 
>group.  Can anyone
>tell me how to fix this or suggest another way to grab the users port
>number.  We need this to use as a unique identifier in a filename.
>
>


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