From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from d85.venus.sunset.net ([209.209.116.85] helo=sunset.net ident=root) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18z6er-00076q-00 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 2003 22:05:26 -0500 Received: (from rreid@localhost) by sunset.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) id h2T35ro00373 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Fri, 28 Mar 2003 19:05:53 -0800 From: "Ralph W. Reid" Message-Id: <200303290305.h2T35ro00373@sunset.net> Subject: Re: bogus tty entry To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 19:05:53 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: from "Joseph C. Lininger" at Mar 27, 2003 04:36:28 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Joseph C. Lininger staggered into view and mumbled: > >I know you don't want to reboot, but I would recommend just that. The >slackware 8.0 boot scripts will clear out the utmp file when you do this. >They issue a "cat /dev/null > /var/run/utmp" which effectively >clears the file out. Don't do this yourself as the system won't function >right until you reboot if you do. Logins, runlevel, and some other things >will break. Thanks for the suggestion. As it happens, the power was interrupted here briefly today, so my system has been rebooted. There are no more bogus tty entries on my system. Thanks to everyone for your input, and have a _great_ weekend! -- Ralph. N6BNO. Wisdom comes from central processing, not from I/O. rreid@sunset.net http://personalweb.sunset.net/~rreid Opinions herein are either mine or they are flame bait. _PI = 4 * ARCTAN (1)