Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 14:49:19 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu, jhay@mikom.csir.co.za Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: large number of logins and utmp Message-ID: <199708300449.OAA08027@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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> * Did you update your /etc/ttys file? I think that if they are not listed > * in there, they don't show up in utmp. > >My face is red. You are right. > >However, I should mention that I did read the man pages of utmp(5) and >login(1). Maybe we should mention something, where do you think would >be the right place? The bugs section for login(3). login(3) uses ttyslot() to find the record number in utmp, and ttyslot() is based on /etc/ttys. Adding, removing or reordering ttys in /etc/ttys, except by appending, also breaks utmp. Bruce
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