Re: xterm & rxvt
Yes. I did try the ls option before. And It still does the same thing.
On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, oneiros wrote:
> >Thus spake Shao Zhang (shaoz@unsw.edu.au):
> >> I have one xterm & one rxvt open. But when I typed the command
> >> 'w', I have only got one entry:
> >> USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
> >> s2193893 ttyp0 :0.0 9:28pm 0.00s 0.47s 0.07s w
> >> The other entry from rxvt is somehow missing.
> >> Is this normal??
> >You'll need to compile it with the --enable-utmp option, otherwise it will not
> >create the utmp entry that w(1) and a number of other utils look at to see the
> >login records. Plus, in order to write to utmp, the rxvt binary needs to be
> >suid root. utmp should never, ever be writable to anyone but root, so the
> >suid is needed in order for it to make this entry. Thankfully, it gives up
> >root privileges immediately (before the window even opens), it there's no need
> >to worry.
> >Type rxvt -h to see if it's compiled in. The list of compile time options are
> >listed in parenthesis to the right of the version.
>
> Hmm dont believe I've ever had to recompile rxvt to have this. I'm running
> 95% hamm including hamm rxvt. Simply start rxvt with the -ls option..
> man rxvt
> -ls|+ls
> Start as a login-shell/sub-shell; resource login Shell.
>
> [timberwolf:adren:~$]> date
> Thu Feb 11 07:56:56 EST 1999
> [timberwolf:adren:~$]> rxvt -ls&
> [2] 13311
> [timberwolf:adren:~$]> last -1
> adren ttyp7 :0.0 Thu Feb 11 07:57 still logged in
> [timberwolf:adren:~$]> w
> adren ttyp7 :0.0 7:57am 1:11 0.36s 0.36s -bash
> (with others....)
>
>
> Hope this helps
>
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