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Bug 60081

Summary:	console login gone from w
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Need Real Name <theo>
Component:	finger	Assignee:	Phil Knirsch <pknirsch>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.2	CC:	rvokal
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Description Need Real Name 2002-02-19 20:24:09 UTC

Description of Problem:

after some time logged in from tty1 (hours? days?) the session
no longer shows to w, who, or finger

The session is still active, per last or ps.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
na

How Reproducible:
intermittent

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:


Expected Results:


Additional Information:

Comment 1 Phil Knirsch 2002-02-24 18:00:58 UTC

That might happen if your /var/run/utmp file gets purged or cleaned up by some
cronjob.

Try disabling all none required cronjobs and see if the problem persits.

Read ya, Phil

Comment 2 Need Real Name 2002-02-27 12:34:50 UTC

Thanks for the response! I believe you are correct about the involvement of the utmp file, but I don't think it's a cron job causing the problem.  The only cron
processes running are those with the default 7.2 installation (except an hourly run of rdate to set the time).  I've monitored several login sessions for several days now, and they still report just fine with w, who, and finger.

Here's some additional information that may be helpful.  The first time I noticed the problem was after I had run nmap on the box to scan itself (I think--this may have also happened in conjunction with the following).  There have been a few instances when I've been logged in via telnet from my HP200LX palmtop computer over my home LAN.  When the 200LX has powered down during the connection, the console login sessions have disappeared.  Something about the way those dead sessions are handled maybe?

Again, thanks for any suggestions on follow-up I might take.

Comment 3 Phil Knirsch 2002-06-19 12:28:11 UTC

OK, back again.

This really sounds very much like a similar bug with finger that has been
reported impossible login times (#52682).

As reported in 52682 it might be related to KDE, but in your case this seems to
be a console/bash problem not cleaning up utmp.

I'll see what i can do. I guess just making finger and who a little smarter and
do the same thing that last does might be a good start.

Read ya, Phil

Comment 4 Phil Knirsch 2004-01-12 11:56:46 UTC

Closing due to inactivity and because the "bug" hasn't surface anymore
lately for me.

Read ya, Phil