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Date:      Fri, 07 Jan 2000 09:56:28 -0500 (EST)
From:      will andrews <andrews@technologist.com>
To:        Vadim Belman <voland@plab.ku.dk>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: w weirdness
Message-ID:  <XFMail.000107095628.andrews@technologist.com>
In-Reply-To: <857lhn81ut.fsf@eagle.plab.ku.dk>

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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 <andrews@technologist.com>
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