Not Another AutoPPP question

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At 23:53 5/07/98 , you wrote:
>> we have just got AutoPPP going on our system and would like to get it
>> loggin the username into the utmp
>
>Hmmm.  Basically, "login" should make pppd put the user name into utmp.
>
>If that doesn't work, maybe your pppd version is too old?
>
>[Whatever you configure on mgetty's end won't change anything, as mgetty
>does not know the user name!]

Hmm interesting...

I have had a few problems with the utmp as well. This is what `w` does...

[root@vodka /root]# w
 11:52am  up 5 days,  1:01, 15 users,  load average: 1.10, 1.08, 1.02
USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU  WHAT
/AutoPPP ttyE0    31200             9:12am  2:40m  0.00s   ?     -
/AutoPPP ttyE1    26400            10:47am  1:05m  0.00s   ?     -
/AutoPPP ttyE2    26400            10:33am  1:19m  0.00s   ?     -
/AutoPPP ttyE3    28800             7:36am  4:16m  0.00s   ?     -
/AutoPPP ttyE4    26400             9:12am  2:40m  0.00s   ?     -
/AutoPPP ttyE5    26400            10:57am 55:17   0.00s   ?     -

and so on...  I get round the problem with

		`cat /var/log/wtmp | grep still logged in`

As these sorts of problems are not usually with mgetty, they are with the
programme mgetty is passing info too, I wasn't going to bring it up. But as
the two versions of mgetty and pppd I use come with redhat 5.1 I e-mailed
the redhat people and mentioned it to them. In fact I suspect that the
problem is with the fact that utmp and wtmp are addressed differently as of
redhat 5.0, and pppd doesn't know about it yet.

I recompiled a new version of pppd with heaps of extra logging options but
even that didn't help me locate the problem.

One thing I do notice though is that two entries are written to utmp...

5aa      ttyE6                         Mon Jul  6 11:07   still logged in
/AutoPPP ttyE6        31200            Mon Jul  6 11:06 - 11:07  (00:00)
hocking  ttyE11                        Mon Jul  6 11:03   still logged in
/AutoPPP ttyE11       28800            Mon Jul  6 11:03 - 11:03  (00:00)
daniel   ttyE5                         Mon Jul  6 10:57   still logged in
/AutoPPP ttyE5        26400            Mon Jul  6 10:57 - 10:57  (00:00)
mandyh   ttyE1                         Mon Jul  6 10:47   still logged in
/AutoPPP ttyE1        26400            Mon Jul  6 10:47 - 10:47  (00:00)
darh     ttyE15                        Mon Jul  6 10:47 - 11:31  (00:44)
/AutoPPP ttyE15       33600            Mon Jul  6 10:47 - 10:47  (00:00)
royb     ttyE7                         Mon Jul  6 10:45   still logged in
/AutoPPP ttyE7        28800            Mon Jul  6 10:45 - 10:45  (00:00)

Who can offer some suggestions as to which programme is getting confused
here? As I suspect it's not mgetty I hope this isn't considred too off topic.

That reminds me; Gert, I assme you knew about the changes to wtmp and utmp
logging? As I thought that pppd does the entries, not mgetty I guess it's
somewhat academic.

Cheers

Alex!

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