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. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
