Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!apple!agate!darkstar!ceres!skidrow From: skidrow@ceres.ucsc.edu (Gary M. Lin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: "root" logged in on a RS/6000 pty Message-ID: Date: 17 Sep 90 17:53:36 GMT References: <382@nwnexus.WA.COM> Sender: usenet@darkstar.ucsc.edu Distribution: na Lines: 21 golder@nwnexus.WA.COM (Warren Jones) writes: >In article skidrow@ceres.ucsc.edu (Gary M. Lin) writes: >> >> I have been noticing a problem for several weeks now, and I'm not >> quite sure what to make of it. Occasionally on a 'who' root is >> logged in a pseudo-tty, apparently doing nothing. >Do you have an X-Station on your network? What you see is probably >the pty associated with the login window. (The login process must >run as root.) Normally I use either the console or the X-Station, but it doesn't have "root" logged on a pty in either case. I don't imagine it's associated with someone else's X session because it fails to go away even if no one is logged in. The problem was not apparent before the upgrade to 9021. - Gary M. Lin ------- (SC)3 Research Group INTERNET: skidrow@ceres.UCSC.EDU UC Santa Cruz UUCP: !ucbvax!ucscc!ceres!skidrow