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Date:      Tue, 09 Feb 1999 20:42:52 +1000
From:      Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au>
To:        jbarbee@singular.com (John Barbee)
Cc:        Andrew Lankford <arlankfo@141.com>, cjclark@home.com, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Making my login class capabilities database work right on 2.2.5 
Message-ID:  <19990209104253.16873.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902081709150.19338-100000@server7.singular.com>  of Mon, 08 Feb 1999 17:14:04 PST
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902081709150.19338-100000@server7.singular.com> 

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> not everyone uses xterm.  personally, i use kvt.

I stick to software that doesn't crash.  But, if kvt is your
choice, then you'd need to see if it's a functional replacement
for xterm and make further decisions based on that.  Whenever
somebody uses a non-standard program, then they just have to
live with the ways it might not do what the old one did.  For
instance, I use qmail (and have for a long time), but it means
that all the millions of experts on sendmail have nothing to
offer me if I have a problem.  (I don't, but that's beside the
point here.)

> it might be a better
> idea to "fix" w/who/finger to gather information based on what ttys are in
> use or something to that effect rather than what's in the *tmp logs. 

Those programs are not broken and don't need to be fixed.  The
utmp file has a purpose and it's up to those programs that ought
to update it to do so.

-- 
Greg Black <gjb@acm.org>


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