[3622] in testers
Re: utmpx lossage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Wed Jun 17 23:26:08 1998
To: Craig Fields <cfields@MIT.EDU>
Cc: rbasch@MIT.EDU, cfox@MIT.EDU, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Jun 1998 21:53:43 EDT."
<199806180153.VAA14530@mad-scientist.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 23:26:00 EDT
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
> > 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.
I'll check on this, but I thought that getty simply exec'ed login,
without forking, and so isn't around to clean up upon logout. Or,
is nanny supposed to start another getty on tport then? It doesn't
seem to be...
Also, I noticed that in the function update_dpy() in nanny, called
when the dpy state goes to NONE, the 8.1 version calls clear_consUtmp(),
while the new version does not. [clear_consUtmp() does not exist in the
new version.]
Bob
