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Re: linux 8.3.28: wtmp

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Sun Sep 17 21:21:21 2000

Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 21:21:17 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200009180121.VAA11979@Bearing-An-Hourglass.mit.edu>
To: Travis C Furrer <furrer@mit.edu>
CC: bugs@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[17617] in Athena Bugs"
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>


Hi, I'm sorry it's taken us so long to get back to you on this issue.
I beleve this problem was fixed in Athena 8.4.  I'm going to close
your bug report now, but thank you for taking the time to report the
problem.  If by some chance you see this problem again please let us
know and we'll be hapy to re-open the report.

	Jonathon Weiss
	jweiss@mit.edu
	MIT IS/Athena Programmer



>   What were you trying to do?
>	   Use the 'who' command to verify that another user is not
>	   logged on to this public athena workstation.
>
>   What's wrong:
>	   It turns out that wtmp is out of sync or something, because
>	   I get:
>
>   % who
>   furrer   pts/0    Mar  4 13:20
>   furrer   pts/1    Mar  4 13:26
>   huia     pts/2    Mar  3 15:26
>   furrer   ttyp0    Mar  4 13:20
>
>	   However, according to 'top' there are NO processes owned by
>	   huia currently running.
>

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