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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu, jhay@mikom.csir.co.za
Subject: Re: large number of logins and utmp
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> * Did you update your /etc/ttys file? I think that if they are not listed
> * in there, they don't show up in utmp.
>
>My face is red.  You are right.
>
>However, I should mention that I did read the man pages of utmp(5) and 
>login(1).  Maybe we should mention something, where do you think would 
>be the right place?

The bugs section for login(3).  login(3) uses ttyslot() to find the
record number in utmp, and ttyslot() is based on /etc/ttys.  Adding,
removing or reordering ttys in /etc/ttys, except by appending, also
breaks utmp.

Bruce