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Re: utmpx lossage

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig Fields)
Wed Jun 17 21:53:49 1998

Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 21:53:43 -0400
From: Craig Fields <cfields@MIT.EDU>
To: rbasch@MIT.EDU
Cc: cfox@MIT.EDU, testers@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...).

That's getty's job. Nanny doesn't write that entry there either. If both
getty and nanny appear to be failing, maybe something else is going wrong.

Craig

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