From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 6 11: 3:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB74C14D73 for ; Thu, 6 May 1999 11:03:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA13782; Thu, 6 May 1999 11:02:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 11:02:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: cjclark@home.com Cc: chrisj@outcast.media-net.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: oddity with time In-Reply-To: <199905060339.XAA10657@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message