[3612] in testers
utmpx lossage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Camilla R Fox)
Tue Jun 16 18:44:53 1998
To: testers@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 18:44:50 EDT
From: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>
System name: smoke-screen.mit.edu
Type and version: IP32 8.2.2 (with mkserv)
Display type: CRM
IRIX 6.3
I'm getting the following weirdness.
(cfox is the only person actually logged in - last thinks zacheiss is
still logged in (he isn't), while sipb0 logged in for a short while
yesterday)
[cfox@smoke-screen]~> who am i
sipb0 ttyq2 Jun 15 15:02
[cfox@smoke-screen]~> who
cfox ttyq0 Jun 16 16:27
cfox ttyq4 Jun 16 16:27
cfox ttyq5 Jun 16 16:28
cfox ttyq6 Jun 16 16:28
cfox ttyq3 Jun 16 16:27
zacheiss tport Jun 16 13:48
[cfox@smoke-screen]~> whoami
cfox
(I noticed the problem when mailmaint misidentified me)
From removing and replacing utmp, utmpx, wtmp, wtmpx, the problem seems
to be with utmpx not having gotten updated when the users in question have
logged out (using strings on them, all of those files have sipb0 in them).
Nanny looks like it's trying to do the right thing. Beats ms.
-Camilla
