Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site teddy.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!grkermi!panda!teddy!mwh From: mwh@teddy.UUCP Newsgroups: net.lan,net.unix,net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: remote logins not showing up in 'w' command Message-ID: <775@teddy.UUCP> Date: Mon, 17-Jun-85 09:07:51 EDT Article-I.D.: teddy.775 Posted: Mon Jun 17 09:07:51 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 19-Jun-85 02:34:14 EDT References: <143@suadb.UUCP> Reply-To: mwh@teddy.UUCP (Mark W. Harley) Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass. Lines: 48 Xref: watmath net.lan:873 net.unix:4821 net.unix-wizards:13558 Summary: >In article herber@bgsuvax.UUCP writes: >>OK.... So here's the problem. When I rlogin to the second VAX and do a >>'w' or 'who' command, the user logged into the pseudo terminal from the >>network does not show up in the list. I can use the 'ps' command and see >>the user's processes having a pty for a controlling terminal but the >>/etc/utmp and /usr/adm/wtmp files are not being updated when the rlogin >>occurs. I have the same problem if I use the telnet software to make >>a remote connection. > >You probably dont have the pseudo tty's as entries in the /etc/ttys >file. That is, entries like: > > 02ttyp0 > 02ttyp1 > . > . > 02ttypf >This is a suggestion based purely on experience without any reasoning >on my part. > > >--------------------- > Anders Bj|rnerstedt > Department of Information Processing & Computer Science > University of Stockholm > S-106 91 Stockholm > Sweden > >UUCP: {seismo,decvax,philabs}!{mcvax,ukc,unido}!enea!suadb!anders We were having the same problem and discovered that the pseudo tty's not only need to be in the /etc/ttys file as above, but also in /etc/ttytype: network ttyq0 network ttyq1 network ttyq2 . . network ttyqe network ttyqf -- -> Mark W. Harley, GenRad Inc, Production Test Division <- ->USmail: Mail Stop 6, 300 Baker Ave, Concord, Mass. 01742 <- ->usenet: {decvax,linus,wjh12,mit-eddie,cbosgd,masscomp}!genrad!panda!mwh <- ->tel: (617) 369-4400 x2928 <-