I looked in the archives for something recent and couldn't find anything
that approximated the conflicting login acounting information we are
seeing.
We recentely upgraded from 2.0 to 3.2 (no letters, numbers or dashes),
and are seeing strange conflicting information from ps, w, finger, and
last. For example, someone will not be logged in, no processes running,
and yet show up in the w listing (this is intermittant). Also, if you finger
someone for their last login it does not always (again, intermittantly)
correlate with the output from last (the user won't show up at all in the
last listing). We have users logging in under DECnet, LAT and TCP/IP.
I complained to Digital, and they sent me a "patched" copy of w, which
did not change a thing. Besides that, all I've received is silence. Does
anyone know of patches that might correct this? Also, is there a list of
"recommended" patches for 3.2 to correct common problems such as
this? I've looked in the patch 3 kit, but I'm hesitant to use any of it after a
specialist told me that Digital had put a "hold" on recommending it be
installed.
I've learned to accept wtmp/utmp/accounting problems with Solaris, but I
would hate to do the same for Digital Unix....
I will summarize.
Bob
haskins_at_myapc.com
Received on Mon Nov 06 1995 - 23:44:05 NZDT