Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!clyde.concordia.ca!nstn.ns.ca!news.cs.indiana.edu!samsung!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!pa.dec.com!hollie.rdg.dec.com!decvax.DEC.COM!evans
From: evans@decvax.DEC.COM (Marc Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Problem with last on Ultrix 4.1
Keywords: help, please
Message-ID: <524@decvax.decvax.dec.com.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jan 91 19:46:09 GMT
References: <1991Jan20.185657.20873@ariel.unm.edu>
Sender: news@decvax.dec.com.UUCP
Reply-To: evans@decvax.DEC.COM
Distribution: comp.unix.ultrix
Organization: Synergytics
Lines: 21

In article <1991Jan20.185657.20873@ariel.unm.edu>, andrew@triton.unm.edu (Andrew Eberhart) writes:
|> 
|> I am having problems with Ultrix 4.1 (X11R4) on my DEC 5000's.
|> 
|> login (or init, I'm not sure which) is not recording the users who
|> log into the console of the machines.  It does not show any of the 
|> xterms coming from console, either.  Therefore, last is not too 
|> useful since most of the logins into the machines is from the consoles.

The easiest way to deal with this is to modify the /usr/lib/xdm/Xstartup script
to add an entry to /var/adm/wtmp as well as modify the /usr/lib/xdm/Xreset
script to remove the entry from /var/adm/wtmp. In the R4 source tree there is
support for this in clients/xdm/sessreg.c which knows how to deal with both
BSD and SYSV wtmp files.

- Marc
-- 
===========================================================================
Marc Evans - WB1GRH - evans@decvax.DEC.COM  | Synergytics     (603)635-8876
      Unix and X Software Contractor        | 21 Hinds Ln, Pelham, NH 03076
===========================================================================