Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:04:30 -0500 From: Brandon Lodriguss <lodriguss@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: user disappears from w and who Message-ID: <c24ebf7704121608042925212c@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello, I'm wondering if anyone else has witnessed this phenomenon in FreeBSD 5.3-Release who could perhaps tell me if it's an oddity/configuration error with my system, or a problem with this version. I had a 4.10 box that this does not happen on, similarly configured. The steps to reproduce the problem: Log in via ssh. Type login, log in again to a second shell within your existing shell. Type w or who. At this point, no IP or hostname should be listed for you, and you only show up once. This is normal behavior, and has happened in all versions of fbsd since i can remember. Type exit to return to your original shell. Do a w or who now... At this point on my system, you are no longer listed in w or who, and the user count in w is incorrect. The only indication that you are still logged in is an active sshd process/connection. If you type last <username>, it does not say "still logged in...". You can, however, snoop on the original tty as root using the watch command, even if the user is invisible (provided you noticed what tty the user was assigned before he went invisible.) I have heard that wtmp is slow to update, but have left myself logged in "invisible" like this for upwards of 15 minutes at a time, and the problem does not correct itself. Has anyone seen this behavior before? Did I misconfigure something? Thanks! Brandon Lodriguss
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