zrzr0111@helpdesk.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Kurt Jaeger aka PI) (01/04/91)
Hi !
This is part of a "cat -v" of our /etc/utmp, while user zrzn0111 is
ftp'ing something.
^@^@^@E2^@^G^@^@^@^@'M-^CUM-^Qzrzn0111ftp0ruspool20.r^@G^E^@^G^@^@^@^@'M-^Co
^ LOOK here !
@^@^@^@F$^@^G^@^@^@^@'M-^ClM-Azrzu0111q4^@^@ttyq4^@^@^@^@^@^@^@FM-
^ and here !
Ftpd, when initiated by a incoming ftp-session, writes a ftp-entry
in /etc/utmp. But the tty-entry is not terminated by a null-byte, its a
char 0 :)
> finger: /dev/ruspool2: No such file or directory
Finger then wants to read the /etc/utmp und skips the tty-entry cause of
the missing null-byte. Then it tries to make some status-query on the
wrong device.
Its a bug, isnt it ?
So long, PI
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