Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!netnews!mjd From: mjd@central.cis.upenn.edu (Mark-Jason Dominus) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: How to get xdm to make wtmp and utmp file entries? Message-ID: Date: 31 May 90 23:42:23 GMT References: <5723@helios.ee.lbl.gov> Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Distribution: comp Organization: University of Pennsylvania Lines: 20 In-reply-to: envbvs@epb2.lbl.gov's message of 31 May 90 22:14:01 GMT In article <5723@helios.ee.lbl.gov> envbvs@epb2.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith) writes: > mjd@central.cis.upenn.edu (Mark-Jason Dominus) writes: > |> > |> Our xdm's don't seem to be logging logins and logouts in the > |> /etc/wtmp and /etc/utmp files. > > The -ls is required to make it write in the /etc/wtmp > file. The -ls also makes it read and execute your .login file. Thanks for the +ut tip; I must have missed it when I read the man page. But neither the R3 nor the R4 man pages say that -ls makes xterm write a wtmp entry, and, in fact, we had the -ls option set already, and no wtmp entries. Does it work for you? -- In some sense a stochastic process can do better; at least it has a chance. Mark-Jason Dominus mjd@central.cis.upenn.edu