login -h

[Timothy P. Jackson]

Ok, I know if have seen this before but I can't remember where. I have a developement machine and when I do a "ps -ef | grep login" I find a bunch of "login -h" processes. I am not sure what the developers are doing to create these but the don't seem to time out. Has any one seen these or can point me in a direction to find out what spawns these processes.

Thanks,
Tim

[Judy Traynor]

Tim

Try ps -eu username

that will tell you who has what process..

there is a process tree command but I don't remember - If I do, I'll get back.

[Elmar P. Kolkman · Accepted solution]

login -h == hushlogin, afaik.
You can get it by creating a .hushlogin file in your homedirectory. This will result in hushing motd and issue files, giving a clean login.

At least, that was so on ultrix. I cannot find the -h in the man page on hpux now, and can not replay it. But you might look for this on this specific system. Perhaps login is replaced?

[Timothy P. Jackson]

Thanks Elmar,

This confims where I saw it before, on Ultrix. I will approach developers and find out who is trying to create an automatic login script that is not working. I was actually able to duplicate it so now I now what to look for.

Tim

[Dietmar Konermann]

In HP-UX the -h option of login(1) takes a (remote) hostname that is supposed to be logged to utmp/wtmp. If you see the -h option without hostname, then this is likely to be caused by problem JAGad55403, fixed beginning with PHCO_23900 (11.11), PHCO_24083 (11.00), PHCO_24267 (10.20).

However, this doesn't explain that they don't timeout.

Best regards...
Dietmar.