Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 15:40:00 -0800 From: Vincent Poy <vincepoy@gmail.com> To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de Cc: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: <utmp.h> gone. All welcome <utmpx.h>. Message-ID: <429af92e1002031540u46a370c0gf633b2cf19e17bf7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100202175505.5d0d5d3e@ernst.jennejohn.org> References: <429af92e1002011500q59b9ae09g908154ae63881ff5@mail.gmail.com> <20100201233216.GL77705@hoeg.nl> <20100202175505.5d0d5d3e@ernst.jennejohn.org>
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On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de>wrote: > On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 00:32:16 +0100 > Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> wrote: > > > * Vincent Poy <vincepoy@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 3) I noticed that it seems the system in the w, who, finger, last, > > > lastlogin output is not recognizing additional sessions of the same > user on > > > a new tty if they are already logged in such as this example. I am > already > > > logged in as vince on ptys/0 so I login again as vince on ptys/1: > > > <snip> > > > > This is very odd. Could you try debugging this a bit more? In order to > > ease debugging, I extended the getent command. You should be able to use > > the following commands: > > > > - getent utmpx active > > Get list of active sessions (`utmp') > > - getent utmpx log > > Get list of log entries (`wtmp') > > - getent utmpx lastlogin > > Get list of last login entries (`lastlog') > > > > When you log in, it should add a "user process" entry to the active > > sessions database, append the same entry to the log and overwrite the > > lastlogin entry for the corresponding user. > > > > An advantage of these commands is that they just perform a raw dump of > > the data on screen, instead of having many forms of unwanted processing > > on top. > > > > What terminal emulator are you using? I'm using mrxvt-devel and I _do_ > see every mrxvt which I have running with w, who, finger and last. > > --- > Gary Jennejohn I'm using telnet/ssh client on unix boxes including the same machine in question, doing a cvsup on February 1, 2010 and rebuilding world fixed the problem. Cheers, Vince Vincent Poy, Ph.D. - Astrophysics
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