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alec@d2si.com writes:
> Christiaan Keet said:
> > Hi Alec,
> > have you ever had any luck getting rxvt writing to utmp?
> > 
> > I saw your post to the freebsd mailing lists with no reply...
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Christiaan
> > 
> > -- 
> > Christiaan Keet                         Like a puppet...
> > keet@plig.net                           on a string.
> > +44 171 831 1666                        o-------------------O<-<
> > 
> 
> Why yes I have managed to get rxvt to write changes into the utmp file. 
> It's not exactly beautiful (I did it in a hurry) but I'll try to put
> together diff's on the source code.  
> 
> Also, would anyone out there like to review the changes for potential
> security problems?  I'm not about to make guarantees.
> 

Or take a look at Eterm, it's an extended rxvt and already DTRT for
FreeBSD. There's a pointer to it off of www.rasterman.com.

Hint, after running configure, cd src and make FreeBSD.

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