Re: who/finger output - billions of pts

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

MaD dUCK <madduck@madduck.net> wrote:
>why is this? what's different about wtmp/utmp (i presume) on
>suse/redhat than on debian? i don't want finger to show 20+ logins of
>my account when all i did was login once and opened xterms
>otherwise...

You could try starting 'xterm -ut' or 'rxvt -ut' instead to inhibit
writing to the utmp file. rxvt also has an X resource you can set to do
this for all rxvts: it's documented in the man page.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]