Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 7 Nov 1996 00:42:48 -0800 (PST) | From | Jauder Ho <> | Subject | Strange utmp!! xterm doesn't always log |
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I am running 2.1.7 and first of all my machine mysteriously crashed two days in a row while I was asleep.
jauderho ttyp1 :0.0 Tue Nov 5 00:05 - crash (1+10:40) jauderho ttyp4 :0.0 Mon Nov 4 23:59 - crash (1+10:46)
Wierd. I am still tracking this down.
However I have noticed that my xterms do extremely strange things as far as logging to wtmp and utmp. I currently have 3 xterms open and I get the following
turtle%jauderho% finger Login Name Tty Idle Login Time Office Office Phone jauderho Jauder Ho p1 Nov 6 23:24 (:0.0) jauderho Jauder Ho *p3 Nov 6 23:24 (:0.0) jauderho Jauder Ho p2 2 Nov 6 23:24 (:0.0)
turtle%jauderho% w 11:24pm up 12:41, 3 users, load average: 0.24, 0.09, 0.02 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT jauderho ttyp1 :0.0 11:24pm 1.00s 0.54s 0.07s w jauderho ttyp3 :0.0 11:24pm 59.00s 0.43s 0.43s -csh jauderho ttyp2 :0.0 11:24pm 53.00s 0.43s 0.43s -csh
which are fine but if I do a last -10
turtle%jauderho% last -10 jauderho ttyp3 :0.0 Wed Nov 6 23:24 still logged in jauderho ttyp1 :0.0 Wed Nov 6 23:24 still logged in reboot system boot Wed Nov 6 10:45 jauderho ttyp1 :0.0 Tue Nov 5 00:05 - crash (1+10:40) jauderho ttyp4 :0.0 Mon Nov 4 23:59 - crash (1+10:46) reboot system boot Sun Nov 3 18:32 jauderho ttyp1 :0.0 Sun Nov 3 18:17 - down (00:00) jauderho ttyp2 :0.0 Sun Nov 3 18:17 - down (00:00) jauderho ttyp3 :0.0 Sun Nov 3 18:17 - 18:17 (00:00) reboot system boot Fri Nov 1 10:02
wtmp begins Fri Nov 1 10:01:53 1996
you will see that only TWO of the three ttys are registered... now if I close the window that is ttyp2 and open a new xterm ,then close and open the same window again, I get
turtle%jauderho% last -20 jauderho ttyp2 :0.0 Wed Nov 6 23:29 still logged in jauderho ttyp2 :0.0 Wed Nov 6 23:29 - 23:29 (00:00) jauderho ttyp3 :0.0 Wed Nov 6 23:24 still logged in jauderho ttyp1 :0.0 Wed Nov 6 23:24 still logged in
which is now normal. This has been happening for some time and if someone can shed some light on this, I would very much appreciate it.
--Jauder
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