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- From: mmt@RedBrick.COM (Maxime Taksar KC6ZPS)
- Subject: Why does xterm not put in a utmp entry?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.002521.17129@RedBrick.COM>
- Keywords: xterm utmp
- Sender: usenet@RedBrick.COM
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- Organization: Red Brick Systems, Los Gatos, CA
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 00:25:21 GMT
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- I have a rather odd problem (in fact, all my users seem to
- be having this problem). Any login session using xterm
- (the standard one shipped with AIX 3.1) does not write to
- /etc/utmp.
-
- This has a couple effects, one cosmetic, one very annoying.
-
- The cosmetic problem is, of course, that the users logged
- in using xterm do not show up to "who", "w", and other
- programs that read utmp.
-
- The very annoying problem is that occasionally a user will
- bring up an xterm and will get not only their own shell, but
- someone else's process fighting for control of the tty. I'm
- sure anyone can imagine the confusion this can cause.
-
- I've tried setting the xterm executable to be suid, but this
- had no effect.
-
- Any hints or suggestions? (And is anyone else having this
- problem, or is it just me?) I'm hoping that the answer isn't
- "use aixterm", since we try to keep things like .Xdefaults
- platform-independent.
-
- --
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- Maxime Taksar KC6ZPS mmt@RedBrick.COM
-