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Re: screen/ getutline() (libc) bug?



On Fri, 14 Jun 1996, joost witteveen wrote:

> I'm running into a rather serious "screen" bug:
> start screen, exit from it, and *nobody* can login to your mashine
> anymore (at least not via telnet): telnet will say:
> 
>   You must exec login from the lowest level shell.

What version of login are you using?  login 1.0-5 checks if the utmp
entry is stale before erroring out.  It will most likely fix this
problem.


Guy


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