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- From: heller@.cs.umass.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
- Subject: Utilities sought...
- Message-ID: <51742@dime.cs.umass.edu>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 14:03:03 GMT
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- Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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- I am looking for a couple of utilities to deal with some problems I am
- having:
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- The first problem is minor, but anoying. It seems that /etc/utmp
- sometimes gets out of sync with reality. That it, finger, who, and w
- (which all read this file) report users as being logged in who are not
- really logged in. This seems to be caused by the various programs that
- create "terminals" and put entries in /etc/utmp, not always managing to
- clean up after themselves (usually when these programs are killed off in
- some abrupt fashion). Is there a utility which will "fix" /etc/utmp by
- removing records that are bogus.
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- The second problem deals with umounting disks and getting "mount device
- busy". I'd like a utility that will list the process(s) that have
- connections to a specified disk, so I can kill these processes off or
- have the users of these process disconnect themselves from the disk to
- be umounted, without having to reboot the system (a real pain).
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- Please respond directly, since I cannot stand to deal with the
- newsreaders we have (rn and xrn), which tend to drive me nuts trying to
- use them...
-
- Robert
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