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I hope that this is the right place to post this plea for help!
When I run the 'last' command to see who has been logging in to my Arch system (there are a few different users who do), I always get duplicate entries for text-console logins.
Here's a listing from 'last' The remote logins (using SSH) from other machines are only shown once, as are X logins (remote or on this machine). However, logins to a text console on this machine get duplicate entries:
root pts/3 old.edenyard.net Fri Jul 1 12:42 - 12:43 (00:00)
guest pts/0 Fri Jul 1 12:20 - 12:21 (00:00)
root pts/1 old.edenyard.net Fri Jul 1 12:16 - 12:16 (00:00)
root tty1 Fri Jul 1 12:03 - 12:21 (00:18)
root tty1 Fri Jul 1 12:03 - 12:03 (00:00)
root tty3 Fri Jul 1 11:59 still logged in
root tty3 Fri Jul 1 11:59 - 11:59 (00:00)
root tty2 Fri Jul 1 11:54 - 11:58 (00:04)
root tty2 Fri Jul 1 11:54 - 11:54 (00:00)
robyn old.edenyard Fri Jul 1 11:54 - 12:15 (00:21)
gerald :0 Fri Jul 1 11:51 still logged in
root tty1 Fri Jul 1 11:51 - 11:58 (00:07)
root tty1 Fri Jul 1 11:51 - 11:51 (00:00)
reboot system boot 2.6.39-ARCH Fri Jul 1 11:51 - 12:43 (00:52)
guest :0 Fri Jul 1 11:43 - 11:44 (00:00)
The duplicate entries in the above listing always have the same form: the first entry is the actual length of time that the user was logged in and the second entry always has a logged-in length of 00:00. Something (maybe the 'login' program?) is making two entries when the user logs in, and updating one of them with the length of session when that user logs out again. I have searched both Google and the man pages for help, all to no avail.
This Arch Linux system was fully updated (using 'pacman -Syyu') on 26/6/2011, i.e., within the last week.
Please can someone explain to my why this is happening and how I can stop it?
Many thanks,
Gerald.
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