Re: Strange Idle User Listed in who, finger
On Monday May 3 2004 2:10 pm, Tom 'Needs A Hat' Mitchell wrote:
Have you looked in /proc/18655 ?
Also is the box current? There was a bug fix with utempter
(wtmp/utmp) not too long ago. Have you picked up the fix for this
(utempter-0.5.5-3) and have you rebooted since that bug fix was
installed?
If you run strace on who and w you can see what they look at to get
[...]
T o m M i t c h e l l
I threw in the towel and re-booted, so I won't get to experiment more with it.
I'm using the yum.conf from artoo's site, so I'm fairly sure everything is up
to date. It could be, however, that I had not rebooted since bug fix --
anymore I tend to reboot only when I upgrade the kernel (or when I get some
zombie user, heh!).
The experience was instructive, at any rate: I learned a lot more about ps, w,
who, finger than I previously knew!
Clint
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Clint Harshaw <clint(a)penguinsolutions.org>
Fedora Core 1
2.4.22-1.2188.nptl GNU/Linux