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- From: mskucher@math.uwaterloo.ca (Murray S. Kucherawy [MFCF])
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: Getting xdm to update /etc/utmp
- Message-ID: <By0uA9.57o@math.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 15:42:08 GMT
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- Organization: Math Faculty Computing Facility, University of Waterloo, Canada
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- jdb@ocf.berkeley.edu (Justin D. Bukowski) writes:
- >We are running xdm on our RISC/6000 with a couple of X-stations.
- >We've noticed that logging in at the xdm login screen doesn't result
- >in an entry in /etc/utmp. This is the file used by who and finger
- >to get user login status. An rlogin does update properly, though.
-
- xdm isn't supposed to do it - xterm is. You need to have compiled xterm
- with the right options and #defines and stuff, and you need to make sure
- the utmpInhibit resource is "off" and you're not using -ut on the xterm
- command line.
-
- Stock xterm with AIX has this disabled; stock aixterm works OK.
-
- -- Murray S. Kucherawy ----------------------------------------+--------------
- Software Systems Co-op, Math Faculty Computing Facility [MFCF] | All spelling
- University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada | errors caused
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