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- From: maj@cl.cam.ac.uk (Martyn Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: utmp error
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.081246.13931@cl.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 08:12:46 GMT
- References: <1664@hsdndev.UUCP>
- Sender: news@cl.cam.ac.uk (The news facility)
- Reply-To: maj@cl.cam.ac.uk (Martyn Johnson)
- Organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK
- Lines: 17
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- In article <1664@hsdndev.UUCP> you write:
- |> We seem to be having a problem with utmp running under ULTRIX RISC
- |> 4.2A. utmp doesn't seem to properly record the most recent logins
- |> after a fair number (approx. 25 or so) people have logged in. It
- |> fails such that "who am i" simply returns a blank, although whoami
- |> returns the correct information. Unfortunately, this problem is
- |> occurring on our main email server and causes a homegrown email
- |> program we use to fail.
- |>
- |> Any ideas?
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- Yes, this happens if you are using more ptys than are mentioned in
- the /etc/ttys file.
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- Martyn Johnson maj@cl.cam.ac.uk
- University of Cambridge Computer Lab
- Cambridge UK
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