[Sunhelp] current loggeg user

[Anthony Barnes]

I have noticed this myself from time to time and never really looked into 
it.
I know who is going to parse through the information contained in the utmp 
file which is under /var/adm.
The file seems to have a very specific format and isn't easy on the eyes. 
 There are man pages for utmp that give a pretty good example on how the 
file is put together.

I guess something happened to that users session and the logout information 
was never updated in the utmp file.  Now when who goes and parses it he 
never finds the 'user exited' information.  It must then perform some date 
calculation and comes up with the logged in time.

I'm not sure if it would help but if there are no other users on the system 
you could backup utmp and then remove it.  Maybe a new one will be 
generated when you logout?  If not, restore the backup.

Anthony Barnes
Application Developer
Cimlinc, Inc. (www.cimlinc.com)
630.250.0090 x1500

-----Original Message-----
From:	He Gang-W1268C [SMTP:Gang_He-W1268C at email.mot.com]
Sent:	Wednesday, June 23, 1999 12:12 PM
To:	'SunHELP at sunhelp.org'
Subject:	[Sunhelp] current loggeg user

Hi,

One of our SUN workstation (solaris 2.6) currently has only one user loggeg
in. But when he type who, it lists another user whose last login time is
like 29 days ago.  I am sure that another user is not loggeg in now. He did
loggeg in 29 days ago. But why does it till show his name.  Any idea? Do we
have to reboot the workstation to fix it or are there better way to get rid
of it?

Thanks.



Gang He
(732)743-8878
w1268c at email.mot.com




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