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Date:      Thu, 12 Jan 95 16:57 CST
From:      steve@simon.chi.il.us (Steven E. Piette)
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, fortin@zap.zap.qc.ca
Cc:        bmk@dtr.com, bugs@FreeBSD.org, questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: phantom users
Message-ID:  <m0rSYS6-000NAzC@simon.chi.il.us>

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> From freefall.cdrom.com!owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 12 16:49:01 1995
> Sender: freefall.cdrom.com!owner-freebsd-questions
> From: Denis Fortin <fortin@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
> 
> > >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
> 

In fact, that's a generic problem, SunOS 4.X.X versions suffer from same.

Steve



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