Re: utmp not updated
Vincent Rivière <riviere@iut-rodez.fr> wrote:
>> That sounds like one of the problems I worked around in xterm.
>> If the update is not using all of the information, it will modify
>> an obsolete entry in utmp.
> I don't have xterm on my system, only gnome-terminal.
> The timestamp of my utmp file is not updated, thus no entry is updated,
> either good or obsolete...
> I found that gdm uses the "sessreg" command to update the utmp file, maybe
> it is in cause ?
Whatever program updates utmp, it still has to make the same sort of
calls - and is subject to the same sort of bugs.
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