Redhat and Who Command?

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Fri, 28 May 1999 22:45:01 +0200


Hi,

On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 12:14:24PM -0500, System Administrator wrote:
> /AutoPPP/ - - /usr/sbin/pppd login
> 
> Does not show the user as logged in at all. Anyone have any ideas why this
> is happening?

pppd is not updating your "utmp" file.  For some pppd reason (wrong path
to utmp compiled in, bug in pppd, incompatible utmp file format, ...).

No, I don't know the answer.

gert
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