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From: crouch@crunchie.axion.bt.co.uk (Chris Rouch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: X11R4 and names
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Date: 23 Feb 90 16:08:53 GMT
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In article <9781@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>,
gdykes@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Gene Dykes) writes:
> We have some interesting problems here, all of which may be related.
> Any hints would be much appreciated.
> 
> 	R4 xload doesn't work.  Complains that it can't read from /hp-ux.
> 

Have you got xload running setuid root?

> 	xtalk doesn't work.  Says it doesn't know who you are.
> 
> 	"who" and "whoami" work.  "who am i" doesn't.
> 
It sounds like you're running xdm, which by default doesn't write to
/etc/utmp, to tell the machine you've logged on. There is a way of doing
this from within your /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xstartup (I think) file, but I
don't know the exact mechanism. If anyone does I'd be interested in
finding out.

Chris
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