[10012] in Athena Bugs
Re: serious zephyr screwup on e40-008-4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jtidwell@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Wed Oct 21 17:28:22 1992
From: jtidwell@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: cfields@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: ckclark@MIT.EDU, jtidwell@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU, bug-dialup@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 21 Oct 92 17:15:35 -0400.
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 92 17:28:04 EDT
> I think that this particular problem is actually not the fault of
> zephyr at all. It is somehow related to the fact that get_message
> looks up the username using getlogin(), which for some reason gets the
> wrong user information from utmp on the RS/6000 sometimes. It could be
> a problem with dm or getlogin() or something else. But get_message
> really is zwriting the incorrect person.
For what it's worth, the person whose zephyr messages I got was logged
in on a machine in E51, which I could not possibly have ever logged in
on. :-) However, he was logged in on e40-008-4 around that time, or
shortly before:
cfirth ttypd TORTELLINI.MIT.E Wed Oct 21 16:07 - 16:11 (00:04)
...so it's certainly possible that we're talking about the same bug
here.
- Jenifer
