[7221] in testers
Re: discrepancy between finger and uptime
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Chen)
Sat Jul 2 12:44:43 2005
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Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 12:44:31 -0400
From: Kevin Chen <kchen@MIT.EDU>
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To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@mit.edu>
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Jonathon Weiss wrote:
> sipb-office-escape-pod:~: athinfo w20-575-33 uptime
> 03:12:11 up 13 days, 22:10, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> sipb-office-escape-pod:~: f @w20-575-33
> [w20-575-33.MIT.EDU]
> No one logged on.
>
> Note the difference in the number of users logged in. I don't think
> this will prevent reactivate from running, but I'm not sure.
I assume this wasn't the case here, but for completeness, I've seen this
(correctly) happen before when the person logged in has a .nofinger file
in their home directory.
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Kevin Chen
http://www.sneswhiz.com/
