Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!uunet!lll-winken!sun-barr!rutgers!att!icus!lenny
From: lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: 'who' problem with HDB(?)
Summary: But with /etc/init not HDB
Message-ID: <1044@icus.islp.ny.us>
Date: 1 Dec 89 15:30:29 GMT
References: <1373@lakesys.lakesys.com>
Reply-To: lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano)
Distribution: unix-pc
Organization: ICUS Software Systems, Islip, New York
Lines: 19

In article <1373@lakesys.lakesys.com> tom@lakesys.UUCP (Tom Baas) writes:
|>I just install HDB uucp on my unix pc.  Today I noticed that when I issued
|>the  who  command it told me that a system had delivered mail a while back
|>and had already hung up was still logged on.(It still is supposedly logged on)
|>Is this a fault with the way I set up my files or (?)
|>
|>Any Ideas?

This was a bug with /etc/init.   It's currently going to appear on that
"infamous" fixdisk to be released.  It appears that there was a race-condition
with the /etc/utmp file, it appears to be fixed (I've been running it for
quite some time) because I used to have the problem more than once a day :-(

-Lenny
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