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Date:      Thu, 6 May 1999 11:02:12 -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.4.03.9905061100460.25986-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199905060339.XAA10657@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>

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On Wed, 5 May 1999, Crist J. Clark wrote:

> > > [-- snip --]
> > > chrisj  p1 :0   5:32PM 1day  tail -f /var/log/messages
> > > [-- snip --]
> > > 
> > > 
> > > how is it that there is a idle time of 1day when the systems only been up
> > > for 46 mins?
> > 
> > Stuck on a login?
> 
> No, I think there is some weirdness associated with starting X going
> on. I have reported this before. Today, the incosistency is not too
> great, but it is inconsistent,
> 
> % w
> 11:33PM  up 51 days, 29 mins, 6 users, load averages: 0.11, 0.10, 0.18
> USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
> cjc      v0       -                Wed06PM  4:48 xinit /usr/home/cjc/.xinitrc -
> cjc      p0       :0.0             Wed06PM     - elm
> cjc      p1       :0.0             Wed06PM  6:47 top
> .
> .
> .
> 
> Notice that I have only logged into my machine at ttyv0 4:48 ago and
> then started X. X in turn spawns an xterm with top in it... somehow
> top has been running two hours longer than the X process it is running
> within.

Are  you shutting your machine down correctly?  The utmp entries aren't
getting cleared.

BTW, versions of xterm that shipped with 2.2.6 (?) had this problem.  My
3.0 box doesn't exhibit the behavior anymore.

What version of XFree86 are you on?

Doug White                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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