[4971] in testers
Re: utmp, the file that wouldn't go away
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Jul 10 09:44:42 2001
Message-Id: <200107101344.JAA03396@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
cc: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:21:36 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:44:35 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> Surely you don't mean wtmp (and wtmpx)? They are supposed to persist.
Solaris 8 only wants to have utmpx and wtmpx, not utmp and wtmp.
> reactivate seems like a bad idea to me -- we already know that
> sometimes reactivate runs when there are people logged into the
> machine, and having utmp thus even more screwed up (i.e. inaccurate)
> seems like a poor plan.
See above. (Also, I think you're wrong; Bob has made it much less
likely that reactivate will run when there are people logged on.)
Garry, you win. Send the patch.
