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Article #77Re: Any fix for diskless idle times?
From: Dave Olson
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:36
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:36
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In <GREENDOG.93Jan11111225@insti.physics.sunysb.edu> greendog@insti.physics.sunysb.edu (Michael D. Fischer) writes:
| Well, I think it's a pretty well known bug that diskless indigos
| have problems with such things as idle times of users, etc.
| Just as a quick summary, "w" reports:
|
| greendog q0 greendog@max 10:04pm 32days 3 1 w
|
| The idle time always seems to be the amount of time since we installed
| the operating system!
|
| Is there some quick/dirty fix for this? Like some file that needs
| to be 'touched' or something? Will SGI ever fix this in 4.x.x?
| It screws up our accounting and some other things (like condor, rwho)...
There is no fix planned for 4.0.X; it is filed as a bug that has
bothered a number of sites. Hopefully it will be fixed in 5.0.
--
Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!olivea!sgigate!odin!twilight!zola!zuni!anchor!olson From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.bugs Subject: Re: Any fix for diskless idle times? Message-ID: <uogivo0@zuni.esd.sgi.com> Date: 11 Jan 93 18:36:47 GMT References: <GREENDOG.93Jan11111225@insti.physics.sunysb.edu> Sender: news@zuni.esd.sgi.com (Net News) Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA Lines: 21