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Date:      Wed, 27 Aug 97 10:59:06 +0200
From:      garyj@frt.dec.com
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: rxvt & utmp 
Message-ID:  <9708270859.AA31922@cssmuc.frt.dec.com>
In-Reply-To: Message from Alec Kloss <alec@d2si.com>  of Tue, 26 Aug 97  12:37:41 CDT.

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alec@d2si.com writes:
> Christiaan Keet said:
> > Hi Alec,
> > have you ever had any luck getting rxvt writing to utmp?
> > 
> > I saw your post to the freebsd mailing lists with no reply...
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Christiaan
> > 
> > -- 
> > Christiaan Keet                         Like a puppet...
> > keet@plig.net                           on a string.
> > +44 171 831 1666                        o-------------------O<-<
> > 
> 
> Why yes I have managed to get rxvt to write changes into the utmp file. 
> It's not exactly beautiful (I did it in a hurry) but I'll try to put
> together diff's on the source code.  
> 
> Also, would anyone out there like to review the changes for potential
> security problems?  I'm not about to make guarantees.
> 

Or take a look at Eterm, it's an extended rxvt and already DTRT for
FreeBSD. There's a pointer to it off of www.rasterman.com.

Hint, after running configure, cd src and make FreeBSD.

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