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- From: mskucher@math.uwaterloo.ca (Murray S. Kucherawy [MFCF])
- Subject: Re: xterm and utmp
- Message-ID: <BzM8nI.5MA@math.uwaterloo.ca>
- Organization: Math Faculty Computing Facility, University of Waterloo, Canada
- References: <mdm.724555881@argus.apple.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:35:41 GMT
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- mdm@apple.com writes:
- >In the man page for aixterm, it states that I can avoid having an
- >entry placed in /etc/utmp if I specify the flag -ut. I WANT an entry
- >(so that I can see how many times I'm logged in with 'who'), so I
- >DON'T specify -ut, but that doesn't work. +ut doesn't work, either,
- >and if I check the process list, it does confirm that I'm on multiple
- >ptys.
- >
- >Any ideas out there?
-
- Check that you don't have an X resource called "aixterm*utmpInhibit"
- set to "true" or "on", or explicitly set it to "off". When enabled,
- that resource causes aixterm and xterm to skip adding an entry for
- you in /etc/utmp.
-
- Puzzling that "+ut" doesn't work.
-
- -- Murray S. Kucherawy ----------------------------------------+--------------
- Software Systems Co-op, Math Faculty Computing Facility [MFCF] | All spelling
- University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada | errors caused
- E-mail: mskucherawy@{math,watdragon}.UWaterloo.ca | by Pnews.
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