Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 17:55:05 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de> To: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> Cc: Vincent Poy <vincepoy@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: <utmp.h> gone. All welcome <utmpx.h>. Message-ID: <20100202175505.5d0d5d3e@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <20100201233216.GL77705@hoeg.nl> References: <429af92e1002011500q59b9ae09g908154ae63881ff5@mail.gmail.com> <20100201233216.GL77705@hoeg.nl>
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On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 00:32:16 +0100 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> wrote: > * Vincent Poy <vincepoy@gmail.com> wrote: > > 3) I noticed that it seems the system in the w, who, finger, last, > > lastlogin output is not recognizing additional sessions of the same user on > > a new tty if they are already logged in such as this example. I am already > > logged in as vince on ptys/0 so I login again as vince on ptys/1: > > <snip> > > This is very odd. Could you try debugging this a bit more? In order to > ease debugging, I extended the getent command. You should be able to use > the following commands: > > - getent utmpx active > Get list of active sessions (`utmp') > - getent utmpx log > Get list of log entries (`wtmp') > - getent utmpx lastlogin > Get list of last login entries (`lastlog') > > When you log in, it should add a "user process" entry to the active > sessions database, append the same entry to the log and overwrite the > lastlogin entry for the corresponding user. > > An advantage of these commands is that they just perform a raw dump of > the data on screen, instead of having many forms of unwanted processing > on top. > What terminal emulator are you using? I'm using mrxvt-devel and I _do_ see every mrxvt which I have running with w, who, finger and last. --- Gary Jennejohn
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