thanks!!! was: Re: ot: i hav a "ghost-user"

[Lutz Kaiser]

Hi Adam and List,
thank you, this /var/run/utmp thing was ist.
It's a good feeling, to bee teh only onw on my own computer again! <smile>

But another thing, why does my realname does not aperar in the list of 
mails?
I use pine,

best regards
Lutz!


On Mon, 9 May 2005, Adam Myrow wrote:

> First, do a "ps -u username," where the username is the login of the ghost 
> user.  If nothing shows up, then that means /var/run/utmp has somehow gotten 
> messed up.  It gets reinitialized at reboot, so a reboot will fix it.  Or, 
> you could manually zero it out by doing "cat /dev/null 
>> /var/run/utmp."  This should be done with no users on the system other 
> than root.  Once you do it, log out and back in, and see if it is fixed. This 
> used to happen to me on occasion, but it hasn't happened recently. Again, 
> make sure you don't have some stray processes before assuming it's a 
> /var/run/utmp problem.
>
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