[IPCop-devel] Re: [IPCop-user] root always logged on?

[Phil B. <mid...@th...>]

On Sunday 31 March 2002 12:23 pm, you wrote:
> I had the same problem.  And the other root login was from 2 weeks
> before the last reboot of my box so it couldn't really be there.
>
> After some poking around, I came to the conclusion that the
> /var/run/utmp file that keeps track of logged in users had gotten out
> of synch due to a crash at some point or other.  What worked for me
> to fix it was to recreate the file:
>
> cat >/var/run/utmp
> ^D

Good info. I would think that

rm /vr/run/utmp
touch /var/run/utmp

Would work just as well.

Perhaps this should be in the rc.sysinit