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linux 9.3.16: w

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Mon Dec 13 02:54:09 2004

Message-Id: <200412130753.iBD7rYBZ016153@all-in-one.mit.edu>
To: bugs@mit.edu
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 02:53:33 -0500
From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@mit.edu>
Errors-To: bugs-bounces@mit.edu

System name:		all-in-one.mit.edu
Type and version:	i686 9.3.16
Display type:		Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP (rev 85)

Shell:			/bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager:		vtwm.gamma

What were you trying to do?
	run "w" and see what's running on various ptys

What's wrong:
	most list "-csh" or "xterm":

% w
 02:39:53  up 27 days, 12:02, 27 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU  WHAT
raeburn  pts/0    :0.0             15Nov04 27days 33:44   0.07s  /bin/sh /etc/at
raeburn  pts/2    -                15Nov04  3days  1.45s  1.45s  -csh 
raeburn  pts/4    -                Wed 6pm  3days  0.11s  0.11s  -csh 
raeburn  pts/6    -                15Nov04  4days  0.41s  0.41s  -csh 
raeburn  pts/7    -                 1Dec04  5days  0.19s  0.12s  slogin venix.mi
raeburn  pts/8    -                30Nov04  4days  1.41s  1.33s  slogin root@ven
raeburn  pts/1    -                17Nov04  4days  0.24s  0.18s  slogin krbdev.m
raeburn  pts/10   -                17Nov04  4days  0.18s  0.65s  xterm 
raeburn  pts/11   -                17Nov04  5days  0.19s  0.19s  -csh 
raeburn  pts/12   -                Wed 6pm  4days  0.04s  0.04s  -csh 
raeburn  pts/13   -                Wed10pm  4days  0.08s  0.08s  -csh 
raeburn  pts/14   -                17Nov04  4days  0.06s  0.06s  -csh 
raeburn  pts/5    216-15-127-174.c Sat12pm  1:32   0.42s  0.26s  -tcsh 
raeburn  pts/16   -                 1Dec04 11days  0.07s  0.07s  -csh 
raeburn  pts/17   -                30Nov04  6days  0.42s  0.42s  -csh 
raeburn  pts/9    -                Wed 6pm  3days  0.09s  0.09s  -csh 
raeburn  pts/18   -                30Nov04  4days  0.11s  0.11s  -csh 
raeburn  pts/19   -                30Nov04 11days  0.09s  0.09s  -csh 
raeburn  pts/20   -                 1Dec04  6days  0.09s  0.09s  -csh 
raeburn  pts/24   -                 1Dec04  5days  0.17s  0.17s  -csh 
raeburn  pts/25   -                 1Dec04  5days  0.11s  3.85s  xterm 
raeburn  pts/26   -                 2Dec04  4days  0.08s  0.08s  -csh 
raeburn  pts/27   -                 3Dec04  9days  0.07s  0.07s  -csh 
root     pts/28   216-15-127-174.c Sun 6am  8:52m  0.19s  0.19s  -bash 
raeburn  pts/29   -                 3Dec04  5days  0.08s  0.08s  -csh 
raeburn  pts/23   216-15-127-174.c Sun 6am  1.00s  0.18s  0.01s  w 
raeburn  pts/15   216-15-127-174.c  5:50pm  1:55   0.09s  0.09s  -tcsh 
%

What should have happened:

	It shouldn't show xterm anywhere except maybe pts/0; all of
	the xterms are started through window manager menus, and the
	window manager is attached to pts/0.  (Confirmed with ps: It
	shows xterm processes listed only for pts/0.)

	It should show a gdb process on pts/5; I'm running gdb on a
	program and core file, and it's sitting at the gdb prompt.

	I'm running another slogin process on pts/10; that should've
	been listed too.

Please describe any relevant documentation references:
	w(1)

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