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From: dada@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at (Martin Kammerhofer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Q: Is there something wrong with the 'ac' command
Date: 20 May 1997 13:42:12 GMT
Organization: Graz University of Technology, Austria
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Martin Kammerhofer (dada@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at) wrote:
: E.g. if you type 'login anotheruser' from your login-shell there will be no
: entry in wtmp for logout, just another login record for your line (tty).
: My program and last(1) know about that but maybe ac(8) doesn't?
: Probably I'd better look at the sources (or use gdb) rather than making wild
: guesses here...
:
Today during my lunch break I finally looked at ac(8) and fixed it. My guess
was wrong, ac does know when to log a user out again (btw last(1) does not).
The problem is (was) FreeBSD's naming convention for ptys (/dev/tty[pqrsPQRS]*)
which isn't (resp. wasn't) handled by ac.
I've send a PR with a patch to freebsd-gnats-submit, it's bin/3639 in the
PR database.
Martin
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