Re: Recent getty(8) changes clobbers w(1)

On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 03:20:28PM +0200, Morten Rodal wrote:
> After the recent getty(8) changes w(1) will now show root logins on
> the same ttys if you use su(1).  However, after logging out the root
> user is not removed from the w(1) (or who(1) for that matter).
> 
> Example output from w(1) where tty p0 and p4 have been used to login
> with root, and currently logged out while p2 is still logged in.
> 
> [atlantis] ~> w
>  3:17pm  up  5:44, 8 users, load averages: 0,02 0,15 0,31
> USER             TTY      FROM              LOGIN_at_  IDLE WHAT
> root             p0       -                 9:40am     - vi
> root             p2       -                 3:11pm     2 -su (csh)
> root             p4       -                 3:14pm     - w
> morten           p0       :0.0              3:10pm     - vi
> morten           p1       :0.0              9:46am     2 irssi
> morten           p2       :0.0              3:10pm     2 -su (csh)
> morten           p3       :0.0              3:10pm     6 ssh slimy
> morten           p4       :0.0              3:11pm     - w
> 
> As far as I know this started after the getty(8) changes, but it could
> be some other changes as while.  Am I the only one seeing this?

Thanks for reporting this, but I've been unable to reproduce the
problem.  Moreover, getty(8) is neither responsible for updating
utmp(5) nor used on pseudo terminals, so my recent changes to
getty(8) could hardly introduce the problem you were observing.
A possible reason for it might be that your utmp(5) file got broken
in some way.

-- 
Yar