Hi everyone and thanks for all people who answered.
All the people who answered agree on that the "file /etc/utmp is not cleared
up properly when the user is log out"
Thanks to
Raymond Ballisti ballisti@ifh.ee.ethz.ch
Dave Fetrow fetrow@biostat.washi
Patrick Pawlack patp@juliet.ll.mil.edu
Michael Lewis michael@kraus.com
Richard J. Niziack rickn@copley.com
Larry J. Miller ljm@halsp.hitachi.com
Robert J Wolf rwolf@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca
Paul Cushing paul@iquery.iqsc.com
Steve Klbane Steve@gec-epl.co.uk
John justin Hough john@oncology.uthsca.edu
Shouben Zhoun Zshouben@pcs.cnu.edu
Andrew Benson drew@mtu.edu
Sumner Hushing hushing@gdwest.gd.com
Bill Reed reedwv@rcwusr.bp.com
Jochen Bern bern@kleopatra.uni-trier.de
Henry Katz hkatz@nucmed.med.nyu.edu
Stuart Pearlman stuart@to.mobil.com
Perry Hutchinson perryh@pluto.rain.com
Adam Fox adamfox@super.org
And to others, since I received the answers in a friend's account, and he
is on vacation now..
Original message
> Hi sun managers
> We are running SunOS 4.1.3. Sometimes a student login and logout. Then
> if I run a command "w" as root, I found the name of that student followed
> by ttyp0 and Idle:19:42... and under w command there is a dash. On the
> other hand, when I run "ps -uax", I do not find his name or any process
> related to his login session.
> Do you have any idea of what is the origin of that message?
> Ahmed Bentiba
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