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Date:      Wed, 12 May 1999 11:46:52 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        cjclark@home.com
Cc:        chrisj@outcast.media-net.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: oddity with time
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905121144380.23756-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199905061838.OAA12460@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>

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On Thu, 6 May 1999, Crist J. Clark wrote:

> Well, if you notice that particular machine has been up for 50+
> days. I shutdown X by killing the last process and then logging out. I
> am logged into the machine right now remotely and,
> 
> % w
>  2:18PM  up 51 days, 15:14, 2 users, load averages: 0.66, 0.27, 0.10
> USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
> cjc      p0       AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD  10:19AM     - w
> cjc      p1       cc942873-a.ewnds 10:20AM     2 emacs /usr/tmp/snd.11871
> 
> You can see things get cleared out OK.
> 
> But on the machine I am on now,
> 
> % w
>  2:26PM  up 1 day,  3:06, 14 users, load averages: 0.69, 0.83, 0.76
> USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
> cjc      v0       -                 9:57AM  4:28 xinit /usr2/people/cjc/.xinitr
> cjc      p0       :0.0              9:57AM  1:59 elm
> cjc      p1       :0.0              9:57AM    35 -csh (tcsh)
> cjc      p2       :0.0              9:57AM 19:57 top
> .
> .
> .
> 
> Same deal.

Hm.

> > BTW, versions of xterm that shipped with 2.2.6 (?) had this problem.  My
> > 3.0 box doesn't exhibit the behavior anymore.
> 
> Both of these are 2.2.8-STABLE and...
> 
> > What version of XFree86 are you on?
> 
> XFree86-3.3.2. I think. I set up a 3.1 box for a co-worker and I'll
> now log in and start X... Whoa! Look at that,

[..]

Try deleting /var/log/utmp.  Perhaps you're having a format conflict?  

xterm just isn't playing nice.

> For completeness, here is my .xinitrc, I end sessions by killing the
> 'login' window (and I like to kill anything else running under X
> gracefully),

Looks OK. (Interesting way around ssh-add ... did you have to compile it
with --without-x so you don't get the nice X password requester?)

Doug White                               
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