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From: lenny@icus.ICUS.COM (Lenny Tropiano)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: ghost user processes
Summary: Fixed in 2006
Message-ID: <1347@icus.ICUS.COM>
Date: 22 Jun 91 10:53:15 GMT
References: <1991Jun21.200251.9745@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Reply-To: lenny@icus.ICUS.COM (Lenny Tropiano)
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Organization: ICUS Software Systems, Austin, Texas
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In article <1991Jun21.200251.9745@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> stsiegem@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Stephan Siegemund-Broka) writes:
|>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.

Call AIX Software Support at 1-800-237-5511, and ask to order the 2006 update.
Prequisite is that you're already upgraded to 3005 which was autoshipped to
all customers several months ago.  This fix covers several lpps, and finally
was concluded in the 2006 update.

-L.
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