[3619] in testers
Re: utmpx lossage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Wed Jun 17 19:20:03 1998
To: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Jun 1998 18:44:50 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:19:50 EDT
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
> Nanny looks like it's trying to do the right thing. Beats ms.
It looks like nanny is not cleaning up the utmp entry after a console
session (that's the tport entry...).
As root, you can run chkutent, which will report on and repair stale
utmp(x) entries. It runs nightly out of cron, so will only show problems
from today; since your sipb0 entry was apparently from the previous day,
chkutent must not have thought it was a stale entry.
Bob
