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From: stsiegem@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Stephan Siegemund-Broka)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: ghost user processes
Message-ID: <1991Jun21.200251.9745@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 21 Jun 91 20:02:51 GMT
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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Does anyone out there know a fix for the corrupted utmp database?
It seems that rlogin sessions when they exit don't properly zero out
the data base in utmp and so finger or w report ghost sessions that
aren't really there (they don't show up in ps for example).
Thanks.