On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 05:56:59PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > Package: xterm > Version: 384-1 > Severity: minor > > The path to the utmp(5) file in the xterm manpage is wrong: > > ,---- > | $ man xterm | grep -A1 /utmp > | /etc/utmp > | the system log file, which records user logins. > `---- > > That should read /var/run/utmp rather than /etc/utmp. The minstall > script tries to detect the path to the utmp file and substitute the > correct value, but in the build chroot /var/run/utmp has apparently been > absent, as no-one has ever logged in there. yes... /etc/utmp appears to be the convention on AIX and HPUX. I could put that last, (along with /var/adm), since those are systems where people actually log in -- odd, but perhaps the default should be the system where the file is least likely to exist :-) -- Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net> https://invisible-island.net
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