[160] in Athena Bugs
/etc/utmp entries not getting deleted
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gregory M. Belaus)
Thu Apr 7 09:45:36 1988
From: Gregory M. Belaus <gmbelaus@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 88 08:43:58 EST
Hi,
This has been a bug in VS 55T. I don't remember seeing it
reported so here goes:
Typing logout to your login window, when you have a few other
xterms lying around, tends to yield incomplete removal of all of the
entries from /etc/utmp. I believe that this happens because more than
one xterm dies simultaneously. Here is an example (with the non-ascii removed):
ttyv0gmbelaus
aZ"
User jamarroq logged out last night. He has no processes
running on the system. However, the machine didn't deactivate overnight
because /etc/utmp wasn't empty.
This is a very repeatable bug.
Greg Belaus
User Consultant
