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Date:      16 Aug 2000 04:23:34 +0200
From:      Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@cybercable.fr>
To:        Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: how should one use the "/usr/X11R6/bin/sessreg" program in 4.x?
Message-ID:  <7l9ikkpl.fsf@gits.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: Vivek Khera's message of "Mon, 14 Aug 2000 17:27:02 -0400 (EDT)"
References:  <14744.25638.954559.165195@onceler.kciLink.com>

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Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com> writes:

> In my KDM configuration, I use the sessreg program to log the session
> into wtmp and utmp as follows:
> 
> /usr/X11R6/bin/sessreg -a -w "/var/log/wtmp" -u "/var/run/utmp" \
>         -x "/usr/local/etc/kdm/Xservers" -l $DISPLAY -h `hostname -s` $USER
> 
> where $DISPLAY is typically ":0"

did you read the manual page ? there are samples inside.
also, the man page says you don't need to use -h as a usual way.

your problem comes from -u. should be -u /var/log/lastlog.
in fact, you don't need to overwrite any default options since
they already point to the right files.

# strings /usr/X11R6/bin/sessreg | grep /
...
/var/log/wtmp           -> -w
/var/log/lastlog        -> -u
/etc/ttys               -> -s

so, the proper way to use sessreg is :

sessreg [-a or -d] -l $DISPLAY -x /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers $LOGNAME

sessreg doesn't update utmp, but wtmp and lastlog. point.

# sessreg -a -l $DISPLAY -x /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers $LOGNAME
# last
root             :0.0                      Wed Aug 16 04:12   still logged in
...
# sessreg -d -l $DISPLAY -x /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers $LOGNAME
# last
root             :0.0                      Wed Aug 16 04:12 - 04:13  (00:00)

Cyrille.
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