Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:34:34 +0200 (CEST) From: "Ronald 'Ko' Klop" <ronald@node11a94.a2000.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rxvt and finger Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906241628530.288-100000@dlanor.evertsen.nl> In-Reply-To: <19990623132324.B676@lemieux.hockey.net>
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On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Jeffrey Dunitz wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > Why aren't rxvt windows not displayed with finger? > > > Because they're not "login shells" by default. Start one up like so: > rxvt -ls & > ...and you should see it in the finger list. There is a resource setting > for that, but I can't remember what it is. Look at the rxvt manpage if > you want to set it permanently. > > > Login shells read your .profile or .cshrc file, whereas non-login shells > may not. This behavior is a little different on every unix variant. > This was not the problem. Rxvt does not update /var/run/utmp (see 'man utmp') by default. In the mailinglistarchives is a fix for the port, but this one isn't complete. Configure can't find the utmp file for a reason I don't know, but updating the config.h file by hand fixes this. I hope somebody can do something with this. (And the maintainer of the port will update this). For questions, please mail me. Greetings, Ronald. -- Ronald Klop http://node11a94.a2000.nl/~ronald/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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