On Monday May 3 2004 2:10 pm, Tom 'Needs A Hat' Mitchell wrote: > > Have you looked in /proc/18655 ? > > Also is the box current? There was a bug fix with utempter > (wtmp/utmp) not too long ago. Have you picked up the fix for this > (utempter-0.5.5-3) and have you rebooted since that bug fix was > installed? > > If you run strace on who and w you can see what they look at to get [...] > T o m M i t c h e l l I threw in the towel and re-booted, so I won't get to experiment more with it. I'm using the yum.conf from artoo's site, so I'm fairly sure everything is up to date. It could be, however, that I had not rebooted since bug fix -- anymore I tend to reboot only when I upgrade the kernel (or when I get some zombie user, heh!). The experience was instructive, at any rate: I learned a lot more about ps, w, who, finger than I previously knew! Clint -- Clint Harshaw <clint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Core 1 2.4.22-1.2188.nptl GNU/Linux