On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 14:19:52 GMT, Eric Weaver <internetat_private> said: > Can anyone explain what would cause a wtmp delay like this? Notice I am > invisible, until the third iteration of 'w'. I hope this is nothing more > than some sort of filesystem lag or sshd delay. Does your system use a 'utempter' type program to write to utmp? > <suser@silver:/home/suser:3>$ w > 5:37AM up 5 days, 1:35, 0 users, load averages: 0.42, 0.16, 0.10 > USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT > <suser@silver:/home/suser:4>$ w > 5:37AM up 5 days, 1:36, 1 user, load averages: 0.38, 0.15, 0.10 > USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT > suser p0 192.168.25.104 5:37AM 0 w If so, it may have been busy trying to do an eventually-failed PTR lookup for your 1918-space address (note the 192.168.25.104 rather than a hostname)... -- Valdis Kletnieks Computer Systems Senior Engineer Virginia Tech
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