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. -- Joseph C. Lininger jbahm at pcdesk.net On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Ralph W. Reid wrote: > An incorrect user/tty combination is displayed by `who' on my system, > and I would like to remove it. `who' indicates that I am logged in > on tty12 even when I am not. If I do log in on tty12, I appear to be > logged in on that tty twice. The bogus terminal usage has no > processes associated with it so there is nothing to kill that might > clear the problem up. > > I suspect that I crashed something that has left an invalid entry in > /var/run/utmp, but I do not know how to remove the invalid entry from > the file. I tried to write a little C program to remove the invalid > entry using `logout' as defined in /usr/include/utmp.h, but an error > during compilation-linking seemed to indicate that I needed to > include one of the many libraries (perhaps from /lib?) on this system > to get my little program to become a running executable. Is there > some sort of program on Slackware 8.0 that might help me clear up > this little annoyance, or should I start trying to figure out which > library I need to link with my little program to deal with it? I > would prefer not to reboot this system just to handle such a little > problem. Thanks for any suggestions, and have a _great_ day! > >
