Re: utmp (fwd)

Ian main (imain@vcc.bc.ca)
Fri, 14 Jun 1996 16:03:38 -0700 (PDT)


On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Marko Siladin wrote:

> > What's going on in utmp/wtmp?
> >
> > I do a who, and get lots of stuff about sessions no longer valid, I show
> > myself logged in about 24 times. What's up with that, I've seen others
> > on this list complain of the same thing. Doing a 'w' on the same
> > instance shows '-' under what for the sessions that are phantom.
> >
> I second the above. This especially happans with xterm sessions. They don't
> get logged out until I exit X and then logout from the VT.
> Anyone got a patch?
> I'm running 2.0.0 with the newest binutils, libc, ppp only my
> sysVinit is older than the stuff listed in Changes.
>

me too! I usually do a killall agetty and it gets rid of them but it's
very anoying.