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Operating Systems HP-UX Stale users and no process Post 302458051 by methyl on Wednesday 29th of September 2010 12:03:51 PM
Old 09-29-2010
On HP-UX the commands "w" , "uptime" and "who" all read the file /etc/utmp .

If you want to see what is in that file in human-readable format:

Code:
cat /etc/utmp | /usr/sbin/acct/fwtmp

As others state, it takes a reboot to bring the file back in sync with reality. Inconsistencies can result from use of "kill -9" or program crashes.
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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS

dump-utmp

DUMP-UTMP(8)						     GNU Accounting Utilities						      DUMP-UTMP(8)

NAME

       dump-utmp - print an utmp file in human-readable format.

SYNOPSIS

       dump-acct [-r|--reverse] [-R|--raw] [-n|--num recs] [-h|--help] [ files]

DESCRIPTION

       dump-acct filename prints a list of all logins. This list is usually written in /var/log/wtmp.

       All fields are separated by vertical line. Fields are: user name, tty, type, id, pid, hostaddr, host, time.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	      Prints the usage string and default locations of system files to standard output and exits.

       -n, --num recs
	      Number of lines to print.

       -r, --reverse
	      Start printing from last records.

       -R, --raw
	      Print raw records, not human-readable.

FILES

       wtmp   The system wide login record file. See wtmp(5) for further details.

SEE ALSO

       login(1), wtmp(5), init(8), sa(8).

AUTHOR

       The GNU accounting utilities were written by Noel Cragg <noel@gnu.ai.mit.edu>.

       This  manual  page  was	written  by  Ognyan  Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg> and updated by Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> for the Debian
       project (but may be used by others).

6.5.1								    2006-04-22							      DUMP-UTMP(8)
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