From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 15 01:04:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA10860 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 01:04:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA10809 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 01:03:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id RAA07911; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 17:33:51 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970915173350.16122@lemis.com> Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 17:33:51 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Terry Lambert Cc: Snob Art Genre , syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Here's an interesting bug in our utmp handling. References: <199709150723.AAA17342@usr04.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <199709150723.AAA17342@usr04.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Mon, Sep 15, 1997 at 07:23:55AM +0000 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, Sep 15, 1997 at 07:23:55AM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: >> Agree. Not only have I never used it, I've never even heard of anyone >> using it. Ok, come to think of it, I have used it, but only because I was >> amazed that I could. :-) > > I used it in order to avoid having to redial a machine I was already > connected to. Come to think of it, I'm pretty sure I've had trouble trying to do that on System V (testing a getty, IYWTK). I think it *did* do something like a revoke. Greg