Re: who command shows more users than actual exists

[David Young]

Can I simply delete utmp?  will it recreate itself?  and will that fix the
problem?  if it's indeed a utmp problem, how come upon reboot, the problem
goes away for  awhile only to resurface after some users have logged in and
out?

thanks,
david

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Eggert" <address@hidden>
To: "David Young" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 12:28 AM
Subject: Re: who command shows more users than actual exists


> Often this means that your utmp file is corrupted.  When files like
> that go bad, different commands interpret them differently.
>