[buug] Newbie question - obsolete sessions?

[Jon McClintock]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 11:00:56AM -0700, Skip Evans wrote:
> Got my freeBSD box up and going and am in the process of configuring majordomo. I'm telneting to it right now from a PC in the office. I just closed the cmd shell on the PC yesterday while logged in as root and when I logged in as myself today I see a root session running but now IP address.

Hmm... A couple of things to point out:

- majordomo is icky. Try mailman, it's much nicer.
- You really shouldn't be using telnet in these modern times. Use SSH. 
  Encryption == good. Clear text passwords == bad.

> Is that a session the system always has up for some reason or is it my old session that I did not log out from yesterday? It doesn't show my IP address like the session under my name does.

It's hard to tell what you mean... Try pasting the output of the 'w'
command.

-Jon