[5698] in Athena Bugs
xlogin doesn't maintain /etc/utmp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Carr)
Fri Aug 10 16:03:27 1990
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 90 16:03:16 EDT
From: John Carr <jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
I logged in on the console (not via xlogin) on a public VS3100:
% w
4:01pm up 3 days, 13:32, 4 users, load average: 0.79, 0.74, 0.64
User tty login@ idle JCPU PCPU what
pmgannon ttyp0 2:50pm 37 4 w
jfc ttyp0 3:14pm 37 4 w
jfc ttyp1 3:14pm 1 1:51 18 more
jfc console 3:09pm 49 8:42 8:22 /usr/athena/emacs -geometry 83x7
% last -3
jfc console Fri Aug 10 15:09 still logged in
pmgannon xdm0 unix:0.0 Fri Aug 10 14:50 still logged in
pmgannon xdm0 unix:0.0 Fri Aug 10 13:20 - 14:50 (01:29)
%ps axtp0
PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
13996 p0 S 0:04 (csh)
14318 p0 R 0:00 (ps)
pmgannon is still listed as logged in even though he has no processes.