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Article #779Re: remote logins not showing up in 'w' command
From: mwh
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1985 13:07
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1985 13:07
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>In article <bgsuvax.557> herber@bgsuvax.UUCP writes:
>>OK.... So here's the problem. When I rlogin to the second VAX and do a
>>'w' or 'who' command, the user logged into the pseudo terminal from the
>>network does not show up in the list. I can use the 'ps' command and see
>>the user's processes having a pty for a controlling terminal but the
>>/etc/utmp and /usr/adm/wtmp files are not being updated when the rlogin
>>occurs. I have the same problem if I use the telnet software to make
>>a remote connection.
>
>You probably dont have the pseudo tty's as entries in the /etc/ttys
>file. That is, entries like:
>
> 02ttyp0
> 02ttyp1
> .
> .
> 02ttypf
>This is a suggestion based purely on experience without any reasoning
>on my part.
>
>
>---------------------
> Anders Bj|rnerstedt
> Department of Information Processing & Computer Science
> University of Stockholm
> S-106 91 Stockholm
> Sweden
>
>UUCP: {seismo,decvax,philabs}!{mcvax,ukc,unido}!enea!suadb!anders
We were having the same problem and discovered that the pseudo tty's not only
need to be in the /etc/ttys file as above, but also in /etc/ttytype:
network ttyq0
network ttyq1
network ttyq2
.
.
network ttyqe
network ttyqf
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site teddy.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!grkermi!panda!teddy!mwh From: mwh@teddy.UUCP Newsgroups: net.lan,net.unix,net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: remote logins not showing up in 'w' command Message-ID: <775@teddy.UUCP> Date: Mon, 17-Jun-85 09:07:51 EDT Article-I.D.: teddy.775 Posted: Mon Jun 17 09:07:51 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 19-Jun-85 02:34:14 EDT References: <bgsuvax.557> <143@suadb.UUCP> Reply-To: mwh@teddy.UUCP (Mark W. Harley) Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass. Lines: 48