user disappears from w and who

2004-12-16 Thread Brandon Lodriguss
Hello, I'm wondering if anyone else has witnessed this phenomenon in FreeBSD 5.3-Release who could perhaps tell me if it's an oddity/configuration error with my system, or a problem with this version. I had a 4.10 box that this does not happen on, similarly configured. The steps to reproduce the

Re: user disappears from w and who

2004-12-16 Thread Karol Kwiatkowski
Brandon Lodriguss wrote: > Hello, > > I'm wondering if anyone else has witnessed this phenomenon in FreeBSD > 5.3-Release who could perhaps tell me if it's an oddity/configuration > error with my system, or a problem with this version. I had a 4.10 > box that this does not happen on, similarly co

Re: user disappears from w and who

2004-12-16 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: Brandon Lodriguss wrote: It seems like utmp/wtmp is getting updated when the user logs out of the second shell, then it ignores the fact that the user is still logged in to the original shell. I've got curious and investigated a bit. It looks like when user logs i

Re: user disappears from w and who

2004-12-17 Thread Karol Kwiatkowski
Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: > >>Brandon Lodriguss wrote: >> >> >>>It seems like utmp/wtmp is getting updated when the user logs out of the >>>second shell, then it ignores the fact that the user is still logged in to >>>the original shell. >>> >>> >> >>I

Re: user disappears from w and who

2004-12-16 Thread Brandon Lodriguss
Hi, I still have not found a reason for this happening in this version of fbsd but not others. I am unsure if this is a bug or not. If anyone has an answer or a theory, it would be much appreciated. I do however have two workarounds if anyone is concerned about their users doing this little a

Re: user disappears from w and who

2004-12-16 Thread Karol Kwiatkowski
Brandon Lodriguss wrote: > It seems like utmp/wtmp is getting updated when the user logs out of the > second shell, then it ignores the fact that the user is still logged in to > the original shell. I've got curious and investigated a bit. It looks like when user logs in the second time (and it