Re: finger/xiterms ?
Michael Barnes (mibarnes@mail.vth.vt.edu)
Tue, 12 May 1998 03:31:28 -0400
For recent versions of rxvt, the utmp stuff is a compile time option, so
just setting the sticky bit may not work without recompiling...
On Mon, May 11, 1998 at 10:19:28PM -0700, Jason H. Liao wrote:
> 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.
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