Hello ,
 Thanks to Dr Blinn , for advice in this regard.      
        
 The problem inolved defunct users , i.e. users 
 without any processes being displayed , whrn the 
 "w" command was run .
 I've applied 4.0F ,Pkit 7 , system has been under
observation for
 the last 4 days and seems to be well behaved .
 thanks & regards
 Dominic.
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Received on Tue Jan 28 2003 - 09:04:06 NZDT