On Thursday 26 June 2003 12:32, you wrote:
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 05:03, Christian Andersson wrote:
On Thursday 26 June 2003 09:46, illustre wrote:
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 21:49, Christian Andersson wrote:
On Thursday 26 June 2003 02:04, illustre wrote:
i am only logged in as root and who shows this?
root tty1 Jun 25 20:01 illustre pts/0 Jun 25 19:57 illustre pts/3 Jun 24 20:04 illustre pts/4 Jun 22 18:02
What if you try 'w' or 'last | grep still'?
w showed none, that's was strange
$ last | grep still
illustre@pepino:~> last | grep still illustre pts/1 Thu Jun 26 06:32 still logged in illustre pts/2 Wed Jun 25 21:07 still logged in illustre pts/0 Wed Jun 25 21:07 still logged in illustre :0 console Wed Jun 25 21:07 still logged in root tty1 Wed Jun 25 20:10 still logged in
It's a well-known problem (with no known solution), that some programs tend to trash the utmp/wtmp files (where logged-in users are registered). It happens typically if the machine crashes or is not cleanly shutdown. You should generally take a great care not to shut down the machine by doing cold-reset, which will otherwise ultimately crash your file systems. If possible, when shutting the machine down, you should first log out all users, then use the command 'shutdown' (or equivalent) as root. Best regards -- Ch