From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 8 12:25:35 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA25586 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 12:25:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpha.comkey.com.au (alpha.comkey.com.au [203.9.152.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA25546 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 12:25:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjb@comkey.com.au) Received: (qmail 13646 invoked by uid 1001); 8 Feb 1999 19:31:35 -0000 Message-ID: <19990208193135.13645.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> X-Posted-By: GBA-Post 1.04 06-Feb-1999 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 05:31:34 +1000 From: Greg Black To: Andrew Lankford Cc: "John Barbee" , cjclark@home.com, "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: Re: Making my login class capabilities database work right on 2.2.5 References: In-reply-to: of Sun, 07 Feb 1999 07:44:21 EST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >Andrew, I have gotten my X logins to show up in some form. I think I was > >able to get it showing up in the last log but not respond to w/who/finger. > >I was in the middle of tracking down where in the code these program were > >getting their information from but got distracted. I've since reinstalled > >and haven't gotten back to it. > > Yeah, You run "who" using the wtmp file instead of utmp, and you'll get a long > list of all the folks who have been on, including your X sessions (I think), > but who won't read an X session entry out of the utmp file (which is what it > normally does). Come on guys, why so reluctant to read the fine manuals. The man page for xterm documents the -ut and +ut options and the utmpInhibit X resource which control all this stuff. Remember, the manuals *do* have information and are meant to be used. -- Greg Black To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message