finger under 386/ix 2.2

[Brad Karp]

I've recently installed my Interactive UNIX Workstation Developer 2.2 update,
and have noticed some rather annoying behavior related to finger under TCP/IP.
It's possible that previous versions of 386/ix have had this same problem;
I didn't install TCP/IP on the old version.

When I use X, and start a few xterms which make logins on ttyp ports, and then
logout of the ttyp sessions, finger karp at softshop still shows the sessions that
have been terminated, and thinks that they are just idle. I suppose that what
is happening is that /etc/utmp or /etc/wtmp are not being cleared properly
after the ttyp sessions are terminated.

Does anyone have a fix or workaround for this problem? It's not preventing
me from getting any work done, but is still rather annoying.

Replies either in news or mail are welcome. Thanks.



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