From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jan 7 6:57:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from blackdawn.com (deepspace9.dcds.edu [207.231.151.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D58514DA6 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 06:57:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from will@blackdawn.com) Received: (from will@localhost) by blackdawn.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA00520; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 09:56:28 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from will) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <857lhn81ut.fsf@eagle.plab.ku.dk> Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 09:56:28 -0500 (EST) From: will andrews To: Vadim Belman Subject: RE: w weirdness Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 06-Jan-00 Vadim Belman wrote: > > I executed 'w' command just few minutes ago and got rather strange > output of it. Notice the uptime and top's IDLE... Hm... > > The xterm with top in it starts automatically when my WindowMaker > starting. I type something in it rather rarely. So, this time I > have typed nothing yet and this seems to be the cause.. > > 7:52PM up 3 days, 3:12, 10 users, load averages: 1.22, 1.11, 1.08 > USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT > voland p1 :0.0 Mon04PM 2days less > voland p2 :0.0 Mon04PM 2days less > voland p3 :0.0 Mon04PM 25 zsh > voland p4 :0.0 Mon04PM - w > voland p5 :0.0 Mon04PM 6:13 zsh > voland p6 :0.0 Mon04PM 6days top > [... the rest skipped ...] > -- > /Voland Vadim Belman > E-mail: voland@plab.ku.dk I run WindowMaker myself, and get the same problem: <2 133-0> (00-01-07 9:54:30) [will@argon ~]% w 9:54AM up 14 mins, 6 users, load averages: 1.23, 1.03, 0.62 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT will v0 - 9:43AM 10 xinit /home/will/.xini will p0 unix:0 9:43AM 3days xtail /var/log will p1 unix:0 9:43AM 3days top will p2 unix:0 9:44AM 1 blackened Acme irc.min will p3 unix:0 9:49AM 4 -zsh (zsh) will p4 unix:0 9:54AM - w <2 134-0> (00-01-07 9:54:30) [will@argon ~]% I suspect it's either WindowMaker's fault, or it's a problem in logout(3) or some other utmp(5)-based functions. I've seen other reports of it. I'm going to try bringing up the topic in the WindowMaker forum and see what comes up. -- Will Andrews GCS/E/S @d- s+:+>+:- a--->+++ C++ UB++++ P+ L- E--- W+++ !N !o ?K w--- ?O M+ V-- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP+>+++ t++ 5 X++ R+ tv+ b++>++++ DI+++ D+ G++>+++ e->++++ h! r-->+++ y? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message