From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 12 09:56:50 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id JAA26729 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Jan 1995 09:56:50 -0800 Received: from iros1.IRO.UMontreal.CA (iros1.IRO.UMontreal.CA [132.204.32.21]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA26720; Thu, 12 Jan 1995 09:56:46 -0800 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by iros1.IRO.UMontreal.CA (8.6.9/8.6.9) with UUCP id MAA15136; Thu, 12 Jan 1995 12:55:36 -0500 Received: (from fortin@localhost) by zap.zap.qc.ca (8.6.9/8.6.6) id MAA06133; Thu, 12 Jan 1995 12:29:04 -0500 From: Denis Fortin Message-Id: <199501121729.MAA06133@zap.zap.qc.ca> Subject: Re: phantom users To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 12:29:03 -0500 (EST) Cc: bmk@dtr.com, bugs@FreeBSD.org, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199501120935.UAA01171@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jan 12, 95 04:35:18 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 543 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >I did a 'who': > > >bmk tty00 Jan 10 00:01 > >uuramjet tty01 Jan 9 22:55 > > Does `ps lax' or fstat show that the tty is still open? Typically, this happened to me in the 1.X days when I had two entries for the tty in /dev with the same major/minor numbers (who either reported a login that always seemed to stay there, or no login at all, depending on the names). -- Denis Fortin, Principal Consultant fortin@acm.org DMR Group Inc, (514) 877-3301 These opinions are my own