Gregory Woodbury wrote: > On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 09:22:02PM +0100, Andy Green wrote: > > On Wednesday 07 April 2004 21:19, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > Gerrit wrote: > > > > gerrit pts/1 Apr 5 21:23 > > ... > > > > gerrit pts/24 Apr 6 12:43 > > > > > It's not a discrepancy. You probably have a bunch of xterms or > > > ssh/telnet sessions open. Each one sucks up a /dev/pts and has a user I actually have no xterms or ssh/telnet sessions open. I did see, however, that when I open an xterm and close it again, the number of users reported by 'who' has grown by one. > > lsof -n | grep pts # lsof -n dhclient 675 root cwd DIR 3,2 4096 352001 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts vsftpd 919 root 1u CHR 136,0 2 /dev/pts/0 (deleted) vsftpd 919 root 2u CHR 136,0 2 /dev/pts/0 (deleted) gpm 984 root 0u CHR 136,0 2 /dev/pts/0 (deleted) crond 1058 root 0u CHR 136,0 2 /dev/pts/0 (deleted) So where does 'who' gets its information from? As reported earlier, there are no files visible in /dev/pts. I have earlier seen a discrepency between 'w' and 'who'. Is this documented somewhere? > There may be a bug in gdm. It does not properly "logout" the sessions > when you select log out from the GNOME menu. I haven't had time to > properly document the problem, but someone should put it in bugzilla. > I haven't tried the lsof command Andy listed yet. I'm not sure when exactly this started. I think it was when I started to run my own kernel, but I fail to see the connection. Around the same time I did a 'yum update' so I may just as well have received a new version of something which is causing the bug. I am using KDE with Konsole. If I click "new session" and immediatly log it out again, the next session gets a higher /dev/pts number, instead of the same one, as was the case earlier. It sounds like a bug somewhere to me, but I have no idea at what level. When I log in with SSH, I get pts/33, when I logout and login again immediatly, I get pts/34, and then pts/35, etc., as if 33 is not freed again. To me, it sounds like a bug in something lower than KDE. So if it is a bug and I should file it, I have no idea where... Gerrit. -- Weather in Twenthe, Netherlands 08/04 07:25: 4.0°C Few clouds mostly cloudy wind 3.1 m/s WNW (57 m above NAP) -- Experiences with Asperger's Syndrome: EN http://topjaklont.student.utwente.nl/english/ NL http://topjaklont.student.utwente.nl/
