Top Document: SGI admin Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Previous Document: -90- BUGS Next Document: -92- What's wrong with ftpd in IRIX 5.2? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Date: 30 Jan 1995 00:00:01 EST Several bugs in different versions of IRIX cause /etc/utmp to not be updated properly after a user logs out. Programs incorrectly reporting logins are correctly reporting the incorrect contents of /etc/utmp. One such bug is present in an unspecified part of IRIX 4.0.x and fixed in IRIX 5.x, and another is in ftpd in IRIX 5.2 and fixed in patch 162 and IRIX 5.3. If one can't fix the bug which causes the incorrect /etc/utmp entries, one can run a separate program to remove them from /etc/utmp after the fact. Jeremy DuBois <jer@asdc.com>, David Hinds <dhinds@allegro.stanford.edu> and Patrick M. Ryan <pat@gsfc.nasa.gov> have written such programs, which can be found in ftp://viz.tamu.edu/pub/sgi/software/utmp/. SGI provides such a program, /usr/sbin/chkutent, in IRIX 5.3; the root crontab runs it daily. User Contributions:Top Document: SGI admin Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Previous Document: -90- BUGS Next Document: -92- What's wrong with ftpd in IRIX 5.2? Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: sgi-faq@viz.tamu.edu (The SGI FAQ group)
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