remote logins not showing up in 'w' command

[mwh at teddy.UUCP]

>In article <bgsuvax.557> herber at bgsuvax.UUCP writes:
>>OK.... So here's the problem.  When I rlogin to the second VAX and do a
>>'w' or 'who' command, the user logged into the pseudo terminal from the
>>network does not show up in the list.  I can use the 'ps' command and see
>>the user's processes having a pty for a controlling terminal but the
>>/etc/utmp and /usr/adm/wtmp files are not being updated when the rlogin
>>occurs.  I have the same problem if I use the telnet software to make
>>a remote connection.
>
>You probably dont have the pseudo tty's as entries in the /etc/ttys
>file. That is, entries like: 
>
>                 02ttyp0
>                 02ttyp1
>                  .
>                  .
>                 02ttypf

>This is a suggestion based purely on experience without any reasoning
>on my part. 
>
>
>---------------------
>  Anders Bj|rnerstedt
>  Department of Information Processing & Computer Science
>  University of Stockholm
>  S-106 91  Stockholm
>  Sweden
>
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We were having the same problem and discovered that the pseudo tty's not only
need to be in the /etc/ttys file as above, but also in /etc/ttytype:

		network ttyq0
		network ttyq1
		network ttyq2
                  .
                  .
		network ttyqe
		network ttyqf
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