Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 11:34:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: =?X-UNKNOWN?Q?Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= <smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com> Cc: Hostas Red <kong@kong.spb.ru>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange idle times Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807281133450.21490-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <rx44sw21lkn.fsf@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com>
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On 28 Jul 1998, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote: > 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. There's a known bug in xterm. The bugfixed version doesn't use utmp (which I don't like), but it stops the corruption. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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