No, the booted kernel is /netbsd, and the system is all 1.5 ELF
(i386). The problem dissappears if xdm is used, and reappears with
kdm. It was the same with 1.4.1 (i386)

Rex

Alex van Denzel writes:

 > Are you by any chance booting a file that is not called "/netbsd"?
 >

rmcm@compsoft.com.au wrote:
> 
> A strange feature (?) has developed on our home server over the past
> few weeks.  Various utilies - eg logname, w, talk - are sometimes
> returning incorrect user names. This appears to have started since
> installation of KDE and use of kdm (though not completely certain of
> this). The system is i386 -1.4.1 and 1.5 (the anomaly persisted over
> an upgrade). The setup is that the server provides XDM services (kdm)
> to a number of diskless clients.
> 
>  A debug trace of w and logname, shows that getlogin() is returning
> the incorrect name. pstree (from the pkg collection) displays what
> appears to be a correct ownership hierarchy.
> 
> I am stumped - any suggestions ?