Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 07:44:21 -0500 From: Andrew Lankford <arlankfo@141.com> To: "John Barbee" <jbarbee@singular.com> Cc: cjclark@home.com, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Making my login class capabilities database work right on 2.2.5 Message-ID: <B0000113075@library.rcpl.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 06 Feb 1999 16:44:09 PST." <001801be5232$f91f8ef0$0700a8c0@farpoint>
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In message <001801be5232$f91f8ef0$0700a8c0@farpoint>, "John Barbee" writes: >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). > >Anyway, I think that with the correct sessreg config like it says in >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=137567+139561+/usr/local/www/db/ >text/1997/freebsd-questions/19970608.freebsd-questions >you get stuff showing up in the last log. However, in order for the other >cmds to work you need to do something else. But I'm not sure and I'm not an >expert. Just read it, tried it. Works with "who /var/log/wtmp" but not with just plain old "who". The man page for sessreg complains that BSD's interface to utmp is just inferior to SysV's. The gall! > >john. > > >> >> > I'm also wondering whether anyone out there using xdm has >> gotten "sessreg" >> > to work right, that is, does your X session show up in "who"? >> I'm not very >> > literate in C, but I think the source code for "sessreg" says that *BSD >> > OS's can't use DISPLAY values like ":0" in "utmp". Perhaps >> this is a question >> > that should be directed at the XFree86 folks, but there have been a few >> > other usenet gripes about it. >> >> Sorry, never have tried to use 'sessreg.' How were your xdm files >> configuration files using it? >> >> > Thanks in advance for the input... >> > >> > >> > Andrew Lankford > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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