Miscellaneous questions - RS6000
Applied Magnetics
3003jalp at ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu
Tue Dec 11 09:12:47 AEST 1990
In article <4585 at idunno.Princeton.EDU> ijlustig at phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Irvin Lustig) writes:
>We've been using our 530 for a few months now. I believe that we
>have Version 3.1 (release 3001??) of AIX. Some oddities that we've
>noticed...
>1) Occasionally, a user will log out from the machine, but who and
> finger show the user as still logged in. finger will show the
> user as being idle for many many days (sometimes 300 days!). Then
> at some later arbitrary time, the user disappears. Has anyone else
> seen this?
Yes. I telnet to another workstation (RISC6K's only) and find myself
logged in several times, according to `who'. However, `ps -fu <me>'
shows only the `ps' and the waiting shell. As if /etc/utmp wasn't
getting updated at logout --but I'm guessing.
--Pierre Asselin, R&D, Applied Magnetics Corp. I speak for me.
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