On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Andreas Gerstlauer wrote:
>
>
> > As you can see from this example, this machine was up for 2 days, 19 h
> > 54min, but there is a user "yevik" on ttyp6 that was idle for 23days.
> > Moreover, this user logged in less than a minute before I ran this
> > command (you can see that from the example as well).
> > For more information the user yevik started KDE at the console.
> >
> Not sure but it might be due to the the fact that "kvt" (the KDE
> terminal) is broken (KDE 1.0, SuSE 6.0 for sure; others I don't
> know). When starting up "kvt" it gives more or less random initial
> idle times. They disappear after the first key is pressed in the
> terminal. What's worse is that kvt has another bug in that it
> doesn't remove it's "wtmp" entry when being killed by a KDE
> shutdown, i.e. a "who" after exiting KDE lists the user as still
> being logged in on all the kvt's he/she had open.
Isn't this the wtmp problem that Lenz mentioned yesterday?
I had the same thing. A quick
# cat /dev/null > /var/log/wtmp
as suggested by Lenz fixed it.
Phil
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