[4698] in testers
Re: ps error on reactivate?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Wed May 30 18:57:48 2001
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To: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
cc: Cana Lynn McCoy <cana@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU
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Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 18:54:15 -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.
It turns out that this is caused by a race condition, in which our removal
of the user's passwd entry occurs before utempter can clean up the utmp
entry. utempter will fail if it can't find the current UID in passwd.
Bob
