"root" logged in on a RS/6000 pty

[Gary M. Lin]

golder at nwnexus.WA.COM (Warren Jones) writes:
>In article <skidrow.653367194 at ceres> skidrow at ceres.ucsc.edu (Gary M. Lin) writes:
>>
>>	I have been noticing a problem for several weeks now, and I'm not
>>	quite sure what to make of it.  Occasionally on a 'who' root is
>>	logged in a pseudo-tty, apparently doing nothing.

>Do you have an X-Station on your network?  What you see is probably
>the pty associated with the login window.  (The login process must
>run as root.)

	Normally I use either the console or the X-Station, but it doesn't
	have "root" logged on a pty in either case.  I don't imagine it's
	associated with someone else's X session because it fails to go away
	even if no one is logged in.  The problem was not apparent before
	the upgrade to 9021.

							- Gary M. Lin
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