curiosity about dectalk software

curiosity about dectalk software

[seth creature]

Hi all:
Just curious about where I would get the dectalk software for linux.  
Thanks much...

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ot: i hav a "ghost-user"

[Lutz Kaiser]

 		Hi all,

i use debian and Linux from the beginning of this year, so i'm realy new 
to linux.
But here ist my problem:
Everytime i strat the computer, login, i have 2 users, also i'm of curse 
just logged in with one on tty1.

The - let me call it Ghost-user is allways from April the 23th,

Any hints, ideas are very welcome!!!
Many thanks in advance!
Now my steps i've made.....
lutz@spirit:~$ who
lutz     tty1         May  9 22:17
lutz     pts/6        Apr 23 00:35 (:tty2:S.3)
lutz@spirit:~$ uptime
  22:31:37 up 19 min,  2 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.02
lutz@spirit:~$ ps aux | grep lutz
lutz      3792  0.0  1.4   6012  2852 tty1     Ss   22:13   0:00 -bash
lutz      3927  0.0  0.4   4616   896 tty1     R+   22:32   0:00 ps aux
lutz      3928  0.0  0.2   3680   428 tty1     R+   22:32   0:00 grep lutz

Re: ot: i hav a "ghost-user"

[Adam Myrow]

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.

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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