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Bug#562640: xterm(1) man page: replace /etc/wtmp by /var/log/wtmp



Package: xterm
Version: 251-1
Severity: minor

The xterm man page says for the -ls option:

   Finally, -ls is not completely ignored,  because  xterm -ls -e
   does write a /etc/wtmp entry (if configured to do so), whereas
   xterm -e does not.

There's no such file /etc/wtmp on my machine. Perhaps it should be
/var/log/wtmp as listed in the FILES section? Or should it be utmp
(as the following mentions utmp only)?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.10.2-2       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfontconfig1            2.6.0-4.2      generic font configuration library
ii  libice6                   2:1.0.6-1      X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libncurses5               5.7+20090803-2 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libutempter0              1.1.5-2        A privileged helper for utmp/wtmp 
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.3.2-1      X11 client-side library
ii  libxaw7                   2:1.0.7-1      X11 Athena Widget library
ii  libxft2                   2.1.14-1       FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxmu6                   2:1.0.5-1      X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxt6                    1:1.0.7-1      X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  xbitmaps                  1.0.1-2        Base X bitmaps

Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii  x11-utils                     7.5+1      X11 utilities

Versions of packages xterm suggests:
pn  xfonts-cyrillic               <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information



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