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Date:      Wed, 28 Apr 1999 17:42:05 +0300
From:      Roman Jemets <r.jemets@ts.ee>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: purge ttys
Message-ID:  <3.0.6.32.19990428174205.00bad710@vegas>
In-Reply-To: <372718E0.98E3350B@ocsny.com>
References:  <3.0.6.32.19990428171212.00d4ea30@vegas>

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>if you do a
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>last | grep still
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>or w
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>you get the ttys of users
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>then if i
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>ps aux | grep  ttypd
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>for example
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>i come up empty
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>no PIDS
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>and i believe that is because these old disconnects are idle backgrounds
>
>pete

As I understand, that means wtmp logout record isn't created and utmp
record isn't cleared by some reason, one of which may be abnormal shell
termination. ps should *always* show the real number of processes and
terminals to which they are connected. Init process should clear
utmp records eventually, I guess. 







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