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From: lrj@batcomputer.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: How do you define "logged in"?
Message-ID: <2183@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Tue, 3-Feb-87 11:44:02 EST
Article-I.D.: batcompu.2183
Posted: Tue Feb  3 11:44:02 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 5-Feb-87 04:42:34 EST
References: <2585@phri.UUCP> <12526@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: lrj@batcomputer.UUCP (Lewis R. Jansen)
Organization: Lab of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University
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In article <12526@sun.uucp> guy@sun.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes:
>>W also has a tendency not to realize when you log out -- I think
>>as long as a pty doesn't get reused, w still thinks you are logged in
>>there.

>"w" prints a line for every seemingly-active line in the "utmp" file.
>SunView should be clearing lines out whenever a window is closed;
>if it's not, there's some sort of problem.

	  This was a bug under SunOS 3.0 which appears fixed under
	SunOS 3.2  The /etc/utmp entries were not being cleaned
	up by Suntools when it exitted.  It also seems that
	the 3.0 bug of Suntools leaving window sizes hanging around
	in a tty struct for innocent people using rlogin has been fixed.

				-- Lewis R. Jansen, LASSP Systems Grunt
					lrj@lasspvax.tn.cornell.edu