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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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utmpd — utmpx Monitoring Daemon

Synopsis

/etc/init.d/utmpd [-debug]

Description

The utmpd daemon monitors /var/adm/utmpx files. See utmpx(4).

Note

/var/adm/utmp is obsolete in the Solaris 8 release and is no longer present on the system. Third-party applications may recreate utmp if they find it missing from the system. You should not permit utmp files to remain on the system and should investigate to determine which application is recreating the file.

utmpd receives requests from pututline(3C) and pututxline(3C) by way of a named pipe. It maintains a table of processes and uses poll(2) on /proc files to detect process termination. When utmpd ...

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