Re: Xdm, utmp, who and finger

[Carey Evans <c.evans@clear.net.nz>]

Will Lowe <harpo@udel.edu> writes:

> Users who are logged onto my machine in X on the console (running xdm)
> don't have a utmp (or wtmp?) entry -- they don't show up in "who" listings
[snip]
> Is this normal?

Yes.  You can try adding a line "use-sessreg" to /etc/X11/config,
which the /etc/X11/xdm/Xstartup script will see and try to add a utmp
entry.  I don't think it worked when I tried it, but I didn't try very 
hard, and that was a while ago.

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