remote logins not showing up in 'w' command

[anders at suadb.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. 


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  Anders Bj|rnerstedt
  Department of Information Processing & Computer Science
  University of Stockholm
  S-106 91  Stockholm
  Sweden

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