From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 2 13:11:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA12944 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 13:11:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA12928 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 13:11:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA19270; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 13:11:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 13:11:07 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Matt Behrens cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Not appearing in login list In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 28 Feb 1998, Matt Behrens wrote: > How do I make my login not appear in the various lists (w, finger, etc.)? > I know it's possible; because I use screen on my hardwired terminal and it > very cleanly hides itself before creating the new terminals. I usually > use rxvt; but I'm not always on X. Iff you're talking about X, you have to teach xterm to not update utmp. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message