[4635] in testers
Re: ps error on reactivate?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Fri May 18 17:37:10 2001
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To: Cana Lynn McCoy <cana@MIT.EDU>
cc: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU
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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 17:37:06 -0400
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
Further investigation revealed that Cana's stale entries were left from
xterm's that were not exited before logout.
Potentially more disturbing is that I noticed that console logins (on
tty7) are also leaving stale entries in utmp. This is more serious,
because the ps command will find the running dm process, and thus stop
reactivate from running. I will look into this further...
Bob
