Bug 8691 – rup <arg> host1 host2 ... hostN doesn't sort by <arg>

Bug 8691 - rup <arg> host1 host2 ... hostN doesn't sort by <arg>

Summary:	rup <arg> host1 host2 ... hostN doesn't sort by <arg>

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	rusers (Show other bugs)
Sub Component:
Version:	6.1
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity low
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	---
Assigned To:	Nalin Dahyabhai
QA Contact:
Docs Contact:

URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords:

Depends On:
Blocks:
	Show dependency tree / graph

Reported:	2000-01-21 03:02 EST by James Baum
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
CC List:	0 users

See Also:
Fixed In Version:
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Story Points:	---
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed:	2000-01-21 03:29:14 EST
Type:	---
Regression:	---
Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---
CRM:
Verified Versions:
Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---
RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---

Attachments	(Terms of Use)
Add an attachment (proposed patch, testcase, etc.)

Groups: None (edit)

Description James Baum 2000-01-21 03:02:54 EST

rup(1) ignores the arguments -h, -l and -t (sort by hostname, load or
uptime) if it is given a list of hostnames. It doesn't sort at all then,
but just uses the list in the order given.
Only tested on x86, but I presume that applies to all platforms.

rpm -qvf `which rup`
rusers-0.15-6

Comment 1 james.baum 2000-01-21 03:29:59 EST

Hmm, looks like a buglet in bugzilla as well.
My original short title was:
"rup <arg> host1 host2 ... hostN doesn't sort by <arg>"
 or to put it in html:
"rup &lt;arg&gt; host1 host2 ... hostN doesn't sort by &lt;arg&gt;"
Html problem...

Main point:
rup -h gamma beta alpha

should return
alpha up ...
beta  up ...
gamma up ...

but it returns
gamma up ...
beta  up ...
alpha up ...

Comment 2 Phil Knirsch 2001-06-06 09:04:10 EDT

This is not a bug. It simply processes the command line args in the order that
they were given, which is the expected behaviour.
If you need ordering simply use a pipe:

rup <arg> host1 host2 ... hostN | sort

which should return the wanted ordered list.

Read ya, Phil

Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.