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From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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Subject: w Bug?
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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 01:33:57 -0500 (EST)
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I have noticed what appears to be a bug in the 'w' command. I have the
following lines in my .xinitrc,

--- Begin Included file
[some preference setting snipped]

# ###########################
# Applications run on startup
# ###########################

# Clock

xclock -d -update 1 -geometry 200x30-0+0 &

# System status

xosview -geometry 560x200+505+0 \#+505+0 &

# Two initial xterms

xterm -T "Top" -geometry 80x24+0+225 \#+0+255 -e top&
xterm -T "Mail: $USER@scitec.com" -geometry 80x24+0+570 \#+0+570 -e elm&
xterm -n "$USER@$HOST" -geometry 80x40+700+300 \#+700+300 &

# The 'Login' window

\xterm -C -n "Login: $USER@$HOST" -geometry 80x15+0+0 \#+0+0
--- End Included File


Now, here is what I get from the 'w' command,

--- Begin Included text
10:03AM  up  1:04, 7 users, load averages: 0.24, 0.12, 0.09
USER     TTY FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
cjc      v0  -                 9:05AM    58 xinit /usr2/people/cjc/.xinitrc --
cjc      p0  :0.0              9:05AM 5days top
cjc      p1  :0.0              9:05AM    57 -csh (tcsh)
cjc      p2  :0.0              9:05AM     3 emacs /usr/tmp/snd.221
cjc      p3  :0.0              9:05AM     - w
--- End Included text


The bug is that '5days' idle I get for ttyp1 running top. Obviously,
if the machine has only been up for an hour the process cannot be idle
for that long.

Is this a known problem (a _very_ quick look turned up nothing for
me)? Or should I write up a 'send-pr'?

PS: The above output was from my work computer. Right now, on my home
PC with FreeBSD, 'w' reports 'top' has been idle for 18 hours even
though I only started the X session about 6 hours ago. The .xinitrc's
on the two are similar but not identical.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com

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