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Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 16:17:20 +0000 (GMT)
From: Jason Young <doogie@forbidden-donut.anet-stl.com>
To: Adam McDougall <mcdougall@ameritech.net>
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Subject: Re: problem with w and who
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On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Adam McDougall wrote:

> When I have several users logged in, w and who only show 2 users total,
> me and a fake user called ttyp3... like this:
> 
> bsdx: {23} w
>  4:37PM  up 41 mins, 2 users, load averages: 0.33, 0.23, 0.11
> USER             TTY FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
> user1            v0  -                 3:59PM    37 xinit
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xi
> ttyp3                :0.0              4:00PM    41 -
> 
> I am using 3.0-current and I have had this problem for several days,
> maybe the whole time ive had 3.0, im not sure, but I have cvsup'ed and
> make'd world almost every day this week and the problem has not gone
> away. Thanks,

Isn't this in a FAQ somewhere?

You're using some program (most likely an xterm from what you've got
running there) that is trashing utmp because it is compiled for 8
character user names, and 3.0-CURRENT uses 16 (or was it 15?). Either way,
recompile your programs that use utmp.

Jason Young
ANET Chief Network Engineer

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