Any fix for diskless idle times?

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2 total messages Started by Michael D. Fischer Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:12

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Author: Michael D. Fischer
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:12

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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)...

Mike
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Re: Any fix for diskless idle times?

#77

Author: Dave Olson
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.
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    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com

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