From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 28 11:36:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA11653 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 11:36:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA11522 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 11:35:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA22474; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 11:34:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 11:34:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: =?X-UNKNOWN?Q?Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= cc: Hostas Red , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange idle times In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 28 Jul 1998, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote: > Doug White 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