jrozbori@udenva.cair.du.edu (Jim Rozboril) (01/28/88)
I seem to remember this question asked a while ago, but I don't recall reading an answer. Very simply, why does show users report one more person than is actually on the system. Can this be fixed easily? I know it's not a big deal, I was just curious more than anything. roz
jeh@crash.cts.com (Jamie Hanrahan) (01/29/88)
In article <9751@udenva.cair.du.edu> jrozbori@udenva.UUCP (Jim Rozboril) writes: > >I seem to remember this question asked a while ago, but I don't recall >reading an answer. Very simply, why does show users report one more >person than is actually on the system. Can this be fixed easily? I >know it's not a big deal, I was just curious more than anything. > >roz Have you ever allowed Bruce Ellis to log into your system? :-)
ISSWWH@NUSVM.BITNET (Choy H. W.) (02/15/88)
Jim Rozboril says: SHOW USER indicates 1 extra user than actually present. ------------------------------------------------------- I have never seen this occurring in all the VMS systems that I have encountered. VAX/VMS 4.4 8600/785 cluster, uVAX II/VMS 4.2 to 4.6 on DECnet... Can u elaborate on the circumstances, hardware/software levels,...? This is extremely intriguing!! >:-) Choy Heng Wah Chartered Electronics Industries 73 Ayer Rajah Crescent #02-18 Ayer Rajah Industrial Estate Singapore 0513. Republic of Singapore BITNET: "Choy H. W." ISSWWH@NUSVM.BITNET
jrozbori@udenva.cair.du.edu (Jim Rozboril) (02/18/88)
In article <8802150816.AA25306@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> ISSWWH@NUSVM.BITNET (Choy H. W.) writes: >Jim Rozboril says: > >SHOW USER indicates 1 extra user than actually present. > >------------------------------------------------------- > >Can u elaborate on the circumstances, hardware/software levels,...? >This is extremely intriguing!! >:-) > >Choy Heng Wah > I am posting this to thank all who responded and to clear things up for anyone else who might be curious. After checking things out further, I realized that this only occured on the nodes which were running CMU's TCP/IP. Several kind folks who were familiar with the product indicated that the problem was due to the fact that the name server deamon was started as an interactive process. When I changed things so the process starts as a detached network process, show users reports things correctly. Again, thanks to all who helped. jim rozboril univ. of denver
rrk@byuvax.bitnet (02/20/88)
We have had this happen occasionally when a user's process is caught in a weird mode such as RWAST. Weird modes can be caused by bad device drivers, bad sysgen configuration, and many other things. Then the system manager tries to delete the process. It gets removed from the list of users, but still hangs around. Show users will count, but not show the extra user. Usually SHOW SYSTEM will reveal the extra process that didn't totally get deleted. It may be necessary to reboot the system to make it go away.