Logins are not clearing when users log out 1

[aseidas]

Hi,
I have a customer running 5.0.5m. They log into the system to run our app which is being exec'd at the end of the users .profile. When they log out of our application at the end of the day the system is still showing them logged in. Our app does not allow concurrent logins so when they try to log in the next day they are not able to until they reboot the server. I remember there was an old TA about something like this but I cant seem to find it. If anyone can find the TA number or give me any ideas on how to fix this it would be greatly appreciated.

-Aseidas

 

[motoslide]

There were a couple of culprits. The one I can remember without doing much research was to clear out the following files, then reboot:

/etc/wtmp
/etc/wtmpx
/etc/utmp
/etc/utmpx

Don't REMOVE them, just clear them like so:
# >/etc/wtmp (do same for remaining 3 files)

This should clear up any ghosts that appear with the "who" command. The second issue involved a corrupt file in /etc/perms (I think). There is a script you can create to clean that up as well. I'll find it if the above doesn't resolve your problem.

 

[motoslide]

The TA for that on SCO's site is: 105610
It explains both issues and solutions.

 

[PHV]

I have this in a crontab:
2,7,12,17,22,27,32,37,42,47,52,57 8-20 * * 1-6 (cwtmp -OT;cwtmp -oU)>/dev/null 2>&1

Hope This Helps, PH.
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