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From: pane@cat.cmu.edu (John Pane)
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Subject: Re: Tiny bug in A/UX 1.0 finger
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Date: 26 Jul 88 17:52:22 GMT
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In article <27425@bbn.COM> jjd@BBN.COM () writes:
>
>There is a tiny bug in the A/UX 1.0 finger command.
>
>When given a local user as an argument, it apparently fails to
>discriminate between current and dead processes listed in /etc/utmp.
>

I don't know if the problem you describe is a bug in finger or a bug in term
(is it ok for term to leave that entry in /etc/utmp?).  I was able to fix it
by adding one line of code to the term program.  After line 106, add:
	utmp.ut_user[0] = '\0';
This has the effect of removing the username from the utmp entry.

John Pane
Department of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
pane@cs.cmu.edu