utmpd Daemon

The utmpd daemon monitors /var/adm/utmpx (and /var/adm/utmp in earlier Oracle Solaris versions) to ensure that utmp entries inserted by non-root processes by pututxline are cleaned up on process termination.

Two entries in /etc/default/utmpd are supported:

• SCAN_PERIOD – The number of seconds that utmpd sleeps between checks of /proc to see if monitored processes are still alive. The default is 300.

• MAX_FDS – The maximum number of processes that utmpd attempts to monitor. The default value is 4096 and should never need to be changed.