Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!convex.UUCP!root From: root@convex.UUCP (Superuser) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Lost mail for you Message-ID: <9006071733.AA15841@sushi> Date: 7 Jun 90 17:33:38 GMT Sender: root@athena.mit.edu (Wizard A. Root) Organization: The Internet Lines: 49 From pescadero.stanford.edu!expo.lcs.mit.edu!xpert-mailer Fri Jun 1 04:09:43 1990 remote from convex Received: by sushi (5.51/7.0) id AA09447; Fri, 1 Jun 90 04:09:43 CDT Received: by convex.COM (5.51/4.7) id AA20390; Fri, 1 Jun 90 04:09:28 CDT Received: from Erebus.Stanford.EDU by uxc.cso.uiuc.edu with SMTP (5.62+/IDA-1.2.8-900601) id AA14560; Fri, 1 Jun 90 04:05:11 -0500 Received: from Hanauma.Stanford.EDU by erebus.Stanford.EDU with TCP; Fri, 1 Jun 90 01:51:03 PDT Received: by hanauma.stanford.edu (5.51/7.0) id AA09425; Fri, 1 Jun 90 02:04:58 PDT Received: from EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU by Pescadero.Stanford.EDU (5.59/25-eef) id AA20863; Fri, 1 Jun 90 02:03:44 PDT Received: by expo.lcs.mit.edu; Thu, 31 May 90 23:14:12 EDT Received: from by expo.lcs.mit.edu; Thu, 31 May 90 23:14:01 EDT Received: from BLOOM-BEACON.MIT.EDU by mintaka.lcs.mit.edu id aa09230; 31 May 90 21:09 EDT Received: by bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU (5.61/25-eef) id AA02316; Thu, 31 May 90 20:52:19 EDT Received: from USENET by bloom-beacon.mit.edu with netnews for xpert@expo.lcs.mit.edu (xpert@expo.lcs.mit.edu) (contact usenet@bloom-beacon.mit.edu if you have questions) Date: 31 May 90 23:42:23 GMT From: Mark-Jason Dominus Organization: University of Pennsylvania Subject: Re: How to get xdm to make wtmp and utmp file entries? Message-Id: References: , <5723@helios.ee.lbl.gov> Sender: convex!expo.lcs.mit.edu!xpert-request To: xpert@expo.lcs.mit.edu 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