Possible 'finger' bug?

Peter Butler <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.sh-utils.bugs
Organization Performance Technologies
Message-ID <02042412420003.08911@bart>
In addition to the possible 'who' bug (see below), looks like 'finger' might 
have a little gremlin in it as well (assuming it's not the kernel).

The following 2 lines (among others) are printed with 'finger":

peter     Peter Butler  *pts/19   113d  Apr 22 17:20
peter     Peter Butler  *pts/21   113d  Apr 22 17:24

Note the 113 days of idle time.  These 2 entries correspond to the 'who' bug 
explained in the original email (see below).

The reason this is weird is because the system has not been UP for 113 days!

[peter@bart (10)] uptime
 12:41pm  up 106 days, 20:45, 19 users,  load average: 1.12, 1.13, 1.14

[peter@bart (11)] uname -a
Linux bart 2.4.2-2 #1 Sun Apr 8 20:41:30 EDT 2001 i686 unknown



Original email describing possible 'who' bug
---------------------------------------------

Possible bug with 'who', or kernel?

I have a couple of entries listed when I do a 'who' that I can't seem to get 
rid of (other than rebooting).  I've even gone so far as to take my system 
down to INIT runlevel 1 (single-user mode) and kill all extraneous processes 
(so that only the kernel threads and the single-user mode bash shell are 
running) and yet I still always see:

peter    pts/19   Apr 22 17:20
peter    pts/21   Apr 22 17:24


My computer is still in this 'state' so if there is anything you want me to 
look at (yo get you some more debug info) let me know.

Peter


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Peter Butler
Software Engineer, Signaling Systems Group
Performance Technologies Inc.
http://www.pt.com
Tel: 613-237-4284 x. 244
Fax: 613-237-5277
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