[comp.sys.dec] weird finger behavior

da@cs.brown.edu (David Ascher) (04/12/91)

Can anyone explain the following:

Setup: Decstation 5000/200, Ultrix 4.1

csh> w
 11:29am  up 73 days, 22:18,  2 users,  load average: 0.38, 0.06, 0.00
User     tty from           login@  idle   JCPU   PCPU  what
da       p0 :0.0           Mon 1pm 4days                -
da       :0                Mon 1pm7772days                -

(7772 days is a bit long, given the age of the DECstation.. =)


csh> who
da       ttyp0   Apr  8 13:00   (:0.0)
andrew   ttyp9   Apr 12 11:30   (128.148.176.110:)
da       :0      Apr  8 13:00

csh> finger
finger: Can't stat /dev/:0

csh> ls -lg /dev | more
total 90
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root     system      29336 Aug 28  1990 MAKEDEV
-rw-r--r--  1 root     system          0 Apr  2  1990 MAKEDEV.local
-rw-r--r--  1 root     system        242 Nov 28 11:20 MAKEDEV.log
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root     system          9 Jan 28 11:55 X0 -> ../tmp/X0
cr--------  1 root     system    69,   0 Apr  5  1990 audit
crw--w--w-  1 da       users      0,   0 Apr 11 15:53 console
[...lots of stuff follows]


I've been logged on for quite a while, some of my windows have been
idle for quite some time, but don't show up at all in who.  Actually,
a lot of my windows don't show up at all in who, w, etc..





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