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Date:      28 Jul 1998 09:28:08 +0200
From:      smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav)
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        Hostas Red <kong@kong.spb.ru>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Strange idle times
Message-ID:  <rx44sw21lkn.fsf@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com>
In-Reply-To: Doug White's message of Mon, 27 Jul 1998 15:12:18 -0700 (PDT)
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807271511550.2941-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>

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Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> writes:
> On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Hostas Red wrote:
> > > > About one month or so i have a strange idle times on my -current (really
> > > > current - 1 hour or so :) - whenever i use 'w' or 'finger' idle time of
> > > > users equivalent to uptime (maybe 1 minute less). ;-(
> > > Corrupted utmp/wtmp perhaps?  Something trying to use the old format?
> > But why? I'm sitting on -current for more than half a year already and i'm
> > rebooting sometimes :). wtmp rolls daily, utmp brand new after rebooting
> > half an hour ago. And problem still exitst, after one more 'make world'.
> Perhaps you have a program using the old format, like ssh?  I'm having
> this problem with our house router (I need to fix that).

I checked, and I have the same problem on my -current box. All my vtys
and ptys show up with as much idle time as the machine's uptime. I ssh
a lot öut"from this box, but very little *into* it, so the fubared
ptys are mostly xterms.

On my laptop (also running -current), I have an xterm which shows up
with twice as much idle time as the machine's uptime, though that is
caused by a bug (feature?) in the uptime calculation (time during
which the machine is suspended isn't counted as uptime)

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com

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