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Re: different output between who and w?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Tue Nov 18 00:28:04 1997

To: Edwin Foo <efoo@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 18 Nov 1997 00:27:24 -0500
In-Reply-To: Edwin Foo's message of Tue, 18 Nov 1997 00:19:58 -0500

Edwin Foo <efoo@MIT.EDU> writes:

> note the (localhost) entries for several users that are definitely not
> coming from hesed itself. Has anyone else noticed this and thought of an
> explanation? I'm not sure why this happens yet -- I wonder if it's because
> athena login doesn't update some /var/log file properly or something, but I
> have no definite idea. It's definitely not a killer issue though, but would
> be kind of nice to have working correctly.

This is a known bug (sipb-athena-bugs[36]) in either telnetd or who,
which we haven't bothered to look into yet.

-- 
Aaron M. Ucko <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu) [Stark raving sane]

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