From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 12 14:57:01 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id OAA11748 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Jan 1995 14:57:01 -0800 Received: from simon.chi.il.us (simon.chi.il.us [199.245.227.17]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA11739; Thu, 12 Jan 1995 14:56:56 -0800 Received: by simon.chi.il.us (Smail3.1.28.1 #2) id m0rSYS6-000NAzC; Thu, 12 Jan 95 16:57 CST Message-Id: 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 Subject: Re: phantom users Cc: bmk@dtr.com, bugs@FreeBSD.org, questions@FreeBSD.org Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > From freefall.cdrom.com!owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 12 16:49:01 1995 > Sender: freefall.cdrom.com!owner-freebsd-questions > From: Denis Fortin > 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