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Bug#1042767: xterm: wrong path to utmp file in manpage



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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