From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 28 7:59:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from petent.ocsny.com (petent.ocsny.com [204.107.76.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBAD515245 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 07:59:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pcollins@ocsny.com) Received: from ocsny.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by petent.ocsny.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id KAA55329; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 10:58:46 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from pcollins@ocsny.com) Message-ID: <37272226.ADC84F1D@ocsny.com> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 10:58:46 -0400 From: pete collins Organization: Optimized Computer Solutions X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roman Jemets Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: purge ttys References: <3.0.6.32.19990428171212.00d4ea30@vegas> <3.0.6.32.19990428174205.00bad710@vegas> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message yes these are all abnormal shell terminations over the course of time i'm not sure if utmp is cleared over time because i ran out of ttys yesterday i killed a bunch of sshd's that were lingering to clear things up a little i know a reboot will clear it out i'm gonna look for a way to claer it i'm sure you can thanks pete To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message