Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!unisoft!asa
From: asa@unisoft.UUCP (Asa Romberger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Pseudo-Terminals Forever
Message-ID: <893@unisoft.UUCP>
Date: 5 Apr 88 15:58:53 GMT
References: <38@etl.ARPA>
Reply-To: asa@noir.UUCP (Asa Romberger)
Organization: UniSoft Corporation, Emeryville Ca.
Lines: 12
Keywords: terminal emulator, unix, macintosh

In article <38@etl.ARPA> richr@etl.arpa. (Rich Rosenthal) writes:
>    For a change of pace, on one of the pseudo-terminals
>    I exec'ed login and latter logged out.
>
>    Result.  The account 'news' is still logged in 5 days latter, but,
>    there are zero (0) processes associated with the login.

I have had the same problem with a different psdeudo-terminal package.
The problem is probably that the programs that were running on the pseudo-
terminal managed to exit without cleaning up /etc/utmp. The only way that I
found to cure the problem was to write a program that looked for that entry
in /etc/utmp and clear the ut_type field.