From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 24 22:46:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA25017 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 22:46:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA24952 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 22:46:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA18081; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 22:46:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 22:46:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: David Martin cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: who command irregularity In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, David Martin wrote: > >From time to time, I'll be logged into my FreeBSD 2.2.6 > machine and I have to log in as another user. After > exiting from the second account, the who command still > shows the second account as being logged in, however > the whoami command displays the correct userid. This > isn't much of a problem, although users have tried to > talk to the second account, which of course isn't logged > in. Is there something I can do to fix this, or is it > just something i'll have to live with. Are you doing this through xterm? There is a known bug that doesn't remove utmp entries properly. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message