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- From: joann@ariadne.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Jo Ann Malina)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: User doesn't show up with who command
- Message-ID: <4800@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 21:22:59 GMT
- References: <BrpqFD.oIu@atg.amex-trs.com>
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- In article <BrpqFD.oIu@atg.amex-trs.com>, croyer@atg.amex-trs.com (Chuck Royer) writes:
- |>
- |> Configuration: RS/6000 530 AIX 3.2 no patches installed
- |>
- |> Does anyone know why a user would NOT show up with a "who" command
- |> even though he is logged in and shows up with "ps"?
- |>
- |> {HiRollers:croyer}813: who
- |> croyer pts/0 Jul 20 06:59
- |> . pts/1 Jul 17 06:54
- |> ddefores pts/2 Jul 17 07:25
- |> croyer pts/4 Jul 20 16:02
- |> croyer pts/3 Jul 20 06:59
- |> efraser pts/7 Jul 20 15:13 (brahms)
- |> ehestene pts/8 Jul 20 12:01
- |>
- |> {HiRollers:croyer}814: ps | grep tcasey
- |> tcasey 19424 0.0 0.0 344 412 - S 08:29:03 0:01 xterm
- |> tcasey 32227 0.0 0.0 168 360 pts/6 S 08:29:08 0:00 -csh
- |> tcasey 33005 0.0 0.0 156 60 pts/6 S 08:29:20 0:00 rlogin brainiac
- |> tcasey 33259 0.0 0.0 152 40 pts/6 S 08:29:19 0:00 rlogin brainiac
- |> tcasey 33505 0.0 1.0 568 640 - S 08:29:05 0:14 mwm
- |>
- |> This seems to happen ONLY with this user. I have looked at all his startup
- |> files and see nothing terribly out of the ordinary.
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- We've seen this since 3.1.3 days and still see it at 3.1.7 and 3.2.1. It isn't
- any one user or pts, sometimes you will log onto a machine and "w" will give
- you only a header and no output -- no one is logged on. Right.
-
- All these levels of AIX also display ghosts, users who used to be on but are
- not any longer. Supposedly a problem with the utmp file.
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- Jo Ann Malina, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
- joann@unixhub.slac.stanford.edu -or- 415/926-2846
- Neither Stanford nor the DOE would be caught dead with these opinions.
- Nor do they consult me when formulating theirs.
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