ghost user processes

Stephan Siegemund-Broka stsiegem at uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu
Sat Jun 22 06:02:51 AEST 1991


Does anyone out there know a fix for the corrupted utmp database?
It seems that rlogin sessions when they exit don't properly zero out
the data base in utmp and so finger or w report ghost sessions that
aren't really there (they don't show up in ps for example).
Thanks.



More information about the Comp.unix.aix mailing list