Re: xterm does not show up in who/w

From: Gregory Smith (gregory_at_please.post.here)
Date: 08/31/04 

Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 09:59:44 +0200

-snip-
>> $ ls -lsa /var/run/utmp
>> 2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1452 30 Aug 10:41 /var/run/utmp
>
>> this problem only exists with xterm. aterm and Eterm show up.
>
> What are the permissions on the executables for xterm, aterm, Eterm?

$ ls -lsa `which Eterm`
4 -rws--x--x 1 root wheel 3428 3 Jun 16:24 /usr/X11R6/bin/Eterm

$ ls -lsa `which xterm`
0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 27 16 Aug 09:19 /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm ->
/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm-static

> it would only help if you had utempter installed (the output of the configure
> script notes that).

i guess i have to a) set the sticky bit and b) build it with utemper
(which i already did).

thanks a lot,
gregory

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