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From: "Joseph C. Lininger" <jbahm@pcdesk.net>
To: Speakup List <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: bogus tty entry
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 18:55:13 -0700 (Mountain Standard Time)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.53.0303271853390.1328@merlin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0303270620550.6389@homerun.midsouth.rr.com>

I believe you are mistaken. You have them reversed. /var/run/utmp stores
info on who is currently logged in, and /var/log/wtmp keeps a record of
logins. This comes from the slackware man page "man utmp"

-- 
Joseph C. Lininger
jbahm@pcdesk.net

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Adam Myrow wrote:

> No, not /var/run/utmp, but /var/log/wtmp!  /var/run/utmp is a history of
> logins, IIRC.
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Ralph W. Reid
 ` Adam Myrow
   ` Luke Davis
     ` Adam Myrow
     ` Joseph C. Lininger
       ` Adam Myrow
 ` Lorenzo Prince
   ` Luke Davis
   ` Ralph W. Reid
     ` Lorenzo Prince
       ` Ralph W. Reid
   ` Ralph W. Reid
     ` Adam Myrow
       ` Joseph C. Lininger [this message]
 ` Joseph C. Lininger
   ` Ralph W. Reid

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