From: Jun-Lin Chen (cjl@libra.ntit.edu.tw)
Date: 08/10/93


From: cjl@libra.ntit.edu.tw (Jun-Lin Chen)
Subject: Re: Bug in utmp
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1993 01:33:52 GMT

In <C878109.93Aug10182648@idcad6.id.dth.dk>, Michael Cederberg (c878109@id.dth.dk) wrote:
: We have a Linux machine that runs Linux 24h, and I have noticed that
: finger and last seems unable to discover when a user logs off. It
: seems that the information on which tty's that are currently in use,
: are only updated when the tty is opened and not when it's closed.
: This bug has been noted in both SLS 1.02 (pl. 9 I think) and SLS 1.03
: (pl. 11).

: Michael Cederberg

We have the same problems too, the "last" command seems to be unable
to discover users logout. It just report "still logged in" even if the
user didn't login.

  J.L. Chen
  Aug. 11, 93