Re: finger/xiterms ?

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On Mon, 11 May 1998, Ryan Lovett wrote:

> On Mon, 11 May 1998, Brett Taylor wrote:
> >I can be logged on with 10's of xiterms open but if I do a 'w' or 'finger'
> >it shows no one logged on.
> 
>  Look in xiterm configs for utmp. I get the same thing with rxvt despite
> compile-time configuration. Which reminds me: why does xiterm exist given
> rxvt?

I had the same "problem" with rxvt. Be sure to setuid root xiterm or rxvt
(see "man chmod"), so that xiterm/rxvt can write a record into the utmp
file.

Jason H. Liao
jhliao@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu


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