[7222] in testers
Re: discrepancy between finger and uptime
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Mon Jul 4 02:15:51 2005
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From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Kevin Chen <kchen@MIT.EDU>
cc: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 02 Jul 2005 12:44:31 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 02:15:39 -0400
> 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.
In fact, I visually confirmed that no one was logged int the machine
at the time.
Jonathon
