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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.bugs
- Subject: Re: Any fix for diskless idle times?
- Message-ID: <uogivo0@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 18:36:47 GMT
- References: <GREENDOG.93Jan11111225@insti.physics.sunysb.edu>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In <GREENDOG.93Jan11111225@insti.physics.sunysb.edu> greendog@insti.physics.sunysb.edu (Michael D. Fischer) writes:
-
- | Well, I think it's a pretty well known bug that diskless indigos
- | have problems with such things as idle times of users, etc.
- | Just as a quick summary, "w" reports:
- |
- | greendog q0 greendog@max 10:04pm 32days 3 1 w
- |
- | The idle time always seems to be the amount of time since we installed
- | the operating system!
- |
- | Is there some quick/dirty fix for this? Like some file that needs
- | to be 'touched' or something? Will SGI ever fix this in 4.x.x?
- | It screws up our accounting and some other things (like condor, rwho)...
-
- There is no fix planned for 4.0.X; it is filed as a bug that has
- bothered a number of sites. Hopefully it will be fixed in 5.0.
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- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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