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Re: Problem with who
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: Problem with who |
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Thu, 16 Sep 2004 01:08:33 +0900 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
address@hidden (Bob Proulx) writes:
> The who program really can't do anything more than this. This also
> applies to the other utmp programs such as finger and w.
But the interesting thing is that finger and w do do more than this;
the omit the dangling entry somehow.
> If you log in again and again and walk up through the devices an entry
> that you have logged into that tty or pty device will be made and will
> then clean out the old entry.
That doesn't always work for me.