From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.gmx.de ([213.165.64.20] helo=mail.gmx.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with smtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DVR6U-0004ia-00 for ; Tue, 10 May 2005 05:32:38 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 10 May 2005 09:32:07 -0000 Received: from 217-68-180-243.cable.primacom.net (EHLO 217-68-180-243.cable.primacom.net) [217.68.180.243] by mail.gmx.net (mp015) with SMTP; 10 May 2005 11:32:07 +0200 X-Authenticated: #18536996 Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 11:32:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Lutz Kaiser X-X-Sender: lutz@spirit To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20050509203218.4165.22576@rif.myfreedombox.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Subject: thanks!!! was: Re: ot: i hav a "ghost-user" X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 09:32:39 -0000 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! 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >