Re: utmp (fwd)

root (root@gomer.mlink.net)
Thu, 13 Jun 1996 00:39:16 -0400


On Jun 12, 7:25pm, Marko Siladin wrote:

> > I do a who, and get lots of stuff about sessions no longer valid, I show
> > myself logged in about 24 times. What's up with that, I've seen others
> > on this list complain of the same thing. Doing a 'w' on the same
> > instance shows '-' under what for the sessions that are phantom.
> >
> I second the above. This especially happans with xterm sessions. They don't
> get logged out until I exit X and then logout from the VT.
> Anyone got a patch?
> I'm running 2.0.0 with the newest binutils, libc, ppp only my
> sysVinit is older than the stuff listed in Changes.

There is a buggy version of xterm (and possibly color_xterm) which
shows up after an upgrade to libc (if memory serves me correctly).
I had a similar problem when I did several package upgrades. Look
for a new xterm.

Greg.

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