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- From: karl@NeoSoft.com (Karl Lehenbauer)
- Subject: Re: (386BSD) finger
- Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 15:08:25 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug23.150825.15374@NeoSoft.com>
- References: <AeZf8Pi00WB3EqYkQj@andrew.cmu.edu>
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- In article <AeZf8Pi00WB3EqYkQj@andrew.cmu.edu> Tao Jiang <tj2n+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
- >I had a problem in using finger (or users etc.) command in X386.
- >Whenever I execute finger, it says that: No one logged on. But
- >this can not be true. If I use finger without x386 runing, I get
- >the correct response.
-
- This is caused by your xterm sessions coming in through pty pseudoterminals
- which do not, by default, have utmp entries written for them when they
- start up. Consequently anything that looks at /etc/utmp, including ttyname(3),
- won't find your session.
-
- If you start xterm with the +ut option, it should appear in finger, who,
- and so forth.
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