[4444] in testers
Re: On the Linux autoupdate problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Fri Jun 9 16:41:53 2000
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Date: 09 Jun 2000 16:41:46 -0400
In-Reply-To: Greg Hudson's message of "Thu, 8 Jun 2000 23:55:17 -0400"
Message-ID: <u1hbt1ad1th.fsf@pusey.mit.edu>
Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> 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).
oxyacetylene seems to be running 8.3, and we knew there were some
problems. This problem is one I hadn't imagined, but given that utmp
handling in 8.4 is basically Totally Different, I'm not sure it's a
good data point, except that it would explain the difficulty the
cluster workstations have.
