Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!jpd00964 From: jpd00964@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: 400-dpi Laser Printer woes Message-ID: <118400006@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 20 Feb 90 10:40:11 GMT References: <3471@plains.UUCP> Lines: 18 Nf-ID: #R:plains.UUCP:3471:uxa.cso.uiuc.edu:118400006:000:749 Nf-From: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!jpd00964 Feb 19 17:36:00 1990 > BTW, when I log on to the NeXt from the console and finger to see >who is there on the system, it shows me twice, which is not what I >am concerned with, but one of it says idle time "in days". I am frustrated >and log-off and finger who is on that machine from some other machine, it >does not say that I am logged-on, but the next time, I log on from the >console, it shows me idling for days. Two problems here. You are probably logged in both the shell and the terminal. That means you are logged in twice. While the getty does update the wtmp file for log-ins, it does not update them for log-offs. This, unfortunately, means that the machine only knows you got on, not that you ever left. Michael Rutman #include