Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!warwick!inmos!nigel
From: nigel@inmos.co.uk (Nigel Holder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: invisible to who(1)
Keywords: login who finger invisible tty
Message-ID: <664@brwa.inmos.co.uk>
Date: 4 Jan 89 09:28:25 GMT
References: <1499@tuhold>
Reply-To: nigel@inmos.co.uk (Nigel Holder)
Organization: INMOS Limited, Bristol, UK.
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In article <1499@tuhold> gfl@tuhold (Gerhard Fleischanderl) writes:
>
>On a dial-in line at a MicroVAX-II (Ultrix 2.0), we encounter
>a strange phenomenon:
>A login on this line (tty03) is not recognized by who(1) nor finger(1).
>However, the login-shell is shown for TTY 03 by ps(1).
>

I suspect there is no entry in /etc/ttys for ttyd0 (the position in /etc/ttys
is used to find a slot in /etc/utmp  -  no entry => no slot !).

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