From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 29 07:48:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA04488 for current-outgoing; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 07:48:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dolphin.neosoft.com (as5200-port-254.no.neosoft.com [206.27.167.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA04483 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 07:48:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by dolphin.neosoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA00856 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 09:48:23 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 09:43:51 -0500 (CDT) Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. From: Conrad Sabatier To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: finger date problem Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 27-Jun-97 Conrad Sabatier wrote: >Please excuse me if this has come up already; just joining the list. > >Since installing current, finger returns erroneous date info: > ># finger conrads >Login Name TTY Idle Login Time Office >Phone >conrads Conrad Sabatier p1 Dec 31 1969 > >Same date every time. My system clock is properly set, and date returns >the correct info. As it turned out, a rebuild of xterm cured the problem (found the answer in the list archives; I *really* must remember to check there first). :-) Still, I'm wondering about something. If I start an X session under xdm *without* starting an xterm, it appears as if I'm not logged in at all. Is there a rationale for this that I'm not aware of? Or possibly some way to get xdm to create a utmp entry? I've tried sessreg, but it sees to have no effect. -- Conrad Sabatier http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads/