Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!convex.UUCP!root From: root@convex.UUCP (Superuser) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Lost mail for you Message-ID: <9006071736.AA16242@sushi> Date: 7 Jun 90 17:36:20 GMT Sender: root@athena.mit.edu (Wizard A. Root) Organization: The Internet Lines: 46 From pescadero.stanford.edu!expo.lcs.mit.edu!xpert-mailer Fri Jun 1 21:59:10 1990 remote from convex Received: by sushi (5.51/7.0) id AA06225; Fri, 1 Jun 90 21:59:10 CDT Received: by convex.COM (5.51/4.7) id AA09271; Fri, 1 Jun 90 21:59:02 CDT Received: from Erebus.Stanford.EDU by uxc.cso.uiuc.edu with SMTP (5.62+/IDA-1.2.8-900601) id AA02824 (for salevin%drlc1.UUCP@convex.com); Fri, 1 Jun 90 21:54:42 -0500 Received: from Hanauma.Stanford.EDU by erebus.Stanford.EDU with TCP; Fri, 1 Jun 90 19:56:43 PDT Received: by hanauma.stanford.edu (5.51/7.0) id AA00506; Fri, 1 Jun 90 19:54:32 PDT Received: from EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU by Pescadero.Stanford.EDU (5.59/25-eef) id AA24966; Fri, 1 Jun 90 19:53:30 PDT Received: by expo.lcs.mit.edu; Fri, 1 Jun 90 17:06:35 EDT Received: from bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU by expo.lcs.mit.edu; Fri, 1 Jun 90 17:06:25 EDT Received: by bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU (5.61/25-eef) id AA10108; Fri, 1 Jun 90 16:52:04 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: 1 Jun 90 19:58:58 GMT From: convex!OPERATIONS.DCCS.UPENN.EDU!mjd%netnews (Mark-Jason Dominus) Organization: /home/mjd/.organization Subject: Re: How to get xdm to make wtmp and utmp file entries? Message-Id: References: Sender: convex!expo.lcs.mit.edu!xpert-request To: xpert@expo.lcs.mit.edu In article 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. Is there a good way to get them to do this, It turns out that the right answer is the `sessreg' program, which is distributed in the same directory as xdm and which is designed to solve exactly this problem. Duh. If someone had pointed this out before I found it, they could have had the pleasure of heaving a brick at my head, but as it is I'll just have to do it myself. Oh, well. Bring on the brickbats. -- In some sense a stochastic process can do better; at least it has a chance. Mark-Jason Dominus mjd@central.cis.upenn.edu