[4439] in testers
On the Linux autoupdate problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Jun 8 23:55:25 2000
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 23:55:17 -0400
Message-Id: <200006090355.XAA01161@egyptian-gods.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: testers@MIT.EDU
Bill Cattey today noted that on Oxyacetylene, running "finger" (which
would be /usr/athena/bin/finger) with no arguments reported a login
for wdc which did not appear under "w" or under "finger @oxyacetylene"
(which would be /usr/bin/finger).
Unfortunately, while arranging to get remote access to the machine,
the machine was rebooted and the utmp files was wiped, so I couldn't
dump the utmp file to see what the turd looked like. But we do appear
to have a problem.
(I would like to move to a model where we run reactivate from a cron
job instead of from xlogin, and it runs "uptime" to check whether
anyone is logged in. Probably too late for that for 8.4, though.)
