Hello alpha-managers,
this time i've got no useful responses from the list to my question:
> what i see, when entering a `w' from my du-3.2c alpha is (for example):
>
> User tty from login_at_ idle JCPU PCPU what
> aaa r4 xterm1.xaver.mpe 11:01 18:41 3:47 11 - (tcsh)
> aaa xterm1.xav 10:57 -
> bbb qb xterm2.xaver.mpe 18:20 13days -
>
> I have 2 questions:
>
> -> what kind of problem do i have (see the second `aaa'-line), when the tty-field
> is missing (or overwritten) by the from field?
> I have this corrupted line once for any active Xterminal-session via xdm.
>
> -> why does a user still show up with w, while `ps aux | grep bbb' does not show
> any bbb-processes? (The user of course has logged out days ago.)
>
> To me this looks like utmp/wtmp-related, but is it a bug or a feature?
> (I thought this to be the well-known `w'-bug, where a patch exists for;
> but obviously it's something different.)
Dave Wolinski <wolinski_at_umalp1.physics.lsa.umich.edu> said, he is seeing
the same features/bugs (?) and thinks that "ntp" may possibly screw up
the idle times.
(We are running xntp too.)
Randy M. Hayman <haymanr_at_icefog.sois.alaska.edu> said, that Digital Unix
has a problem at certain times with updating utmp after a process
exits. He believes that to be a bug.
That was all... :<)
With regards,
Bernt Christandl
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Received on Fri Feb 23 1996 - 12:41:12 NZDT