Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 22:46:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: David Martin <dmartin@sdln.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: who command irregularity Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980624224538.29163M-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980624194438.27607A-100000@gold.sdln.net>
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On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, David Martin wrote: > >From time to time, I'll be logged into my FreeBSD 2.2.6 > machine and I have to log in as another user. After > exiting from the second account, the who command still > shows the second account as being logged in, however > the whoami command displays the correct userid. This > isn't much of a problem, although users have tried to > talk to the second account, which of course isn't logged > in. Is there something I can do to fix this, or is it > just something i'll have to live with. Are you doing this through xterm? There is a known bug that doesn't remove utmp entries properly. 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-questions" in the body of the message
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