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Conference turris::digital_unix

Title:	DIGITAL UNIX(FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1)
Notice:	Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference
Moderator:	SMURF::DENHAM

Created:	Thu Mar 16 1995
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	10068
Total number of notes:	35879

8640.0. "problem with finger or init in v4.0?" by RHETT::AMAN () Wed Jan 29 1997 17:10

    Has anyone see the old problem of init not cleaning up utmp after
    logging out occuring again in V4.0?  (I know this was a problem under
    older versions and it had patches.)  My customer sees this daily.  Most
    of his users telnet in.  A 'finger user' will show 5 occurances of the
    user when the users is only logged in once.  While 'w' and 'who' only
    show his current login.  
    
    So is this a problem with finger not reading utmp properly, or with
    init not cleaning up properly?
    
    % finger amurphy
    Login name: amurphy                     In real life: Asa Murphy
    Phone: 6216309
    Directory: /u1/amurphy                  Shell: /bin/csh
    On since Jan 29 09:47:41                3 hours 40 minutes Idle Time
       on ttype from MISX6.BPA.ARIZONA.EDU:0.0
    On since Jan 28 12:07:07                2 hours 7 minutes Idle Time
       on 
    On since Jan 28 13:05:13                2 hours 7 minutes Idle Time
       on 
    On since Jan 28 13:32:04                2 hours 7 minutes Idle Time
       on 
    On since Jan 29 14:26:53                2 hours 7 minutes Idle Time
       on 
    No Plan.
    % w|grep amurphy
    amurphy  pe         MISX6.BPA.ARIZON 09:47     3:41               -
    % who|grep amurphy
    amurphy     ttype       Jan 29 09:47          
    
    
    Thanks,
    janet

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8640.1 the known patched problems are... finder.uvo.dec.com::COFFEYJ La Feline Flooz - a unix cat Fri Mar 14 1997 08:53 16

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8640.1	the known patched problems are...	finder.uvo.dec.com::COFFEYJ	La Feline Flooz - a unix cat	`Fri Mar 14 1997 08:53`	16
	utmp mentions in the 4.0 patch kit are: PROBLEM: (CLD ISO100270) (Patch ID: OSF400CDE-004) ****** Users appear to be logged in when they are not because CDE dtterm sometimes doesn't reset the utmp entry on exit. PROBLEM: (BRO100738) (Patch ID: OSF400-080) ****** When testing applications on a BSD-style device such as /dev/tty0h, the ttyslot function returns a number matching the index into the /var/adm/utmp file. However, when running the same program on an SVR4-style device such as /dev/lat/622, the ttyslot function always returns zero. The problem can be indentified easily by running the sample test program included here.

utmp mentions in the 4.0 patch kit are:


PROBLEM:  (CLD ISO100270) (Patch ID: OSF400CDE-004)
********
Users appear to be logged in when they are not because CDE dtterm sometimes 
doesn't reset the utmp entry on exit.

PROBLEM:  (BRO100738) (Patch ID: OSF400-080)
********
When testing applications on a BSD-style device such as /dev/tty0h, the
ttyslot function returns a number matching the index into the /var/adm/utmp
file.  However, when running the same program on an SVR4-style device such
as /dev/lat/622, the ttyslot function always returns zero.  The problem can
be indentified easily by running the sample test program included here.