Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:31:54 +0100 From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Andrew Lankford <lankfordandrew@charter.net> Cc: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xdm writes to /var/run/utmp Message-ID: <86fypz10wl.fsf@xps.des.no> In-Reply-To: <43769B05.5000801@charter.net> (Andrew Lankford's message of "Sat, 12 Nov 2005 20:46:45 -0500") References: <43769B05.5000801@charter.net>
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Andrew Lankford <lankfordandrew@charter.net> writes: > Does anyone know why xdm writes to /var/run/utmp on its own without > even using sessreg in it Xstartup or similar configuration files > (contrary to what the man page says)? Perhaps some people think that > having this sort of line in the output of who utility as being useful: > > andrew :0 Nov 12 20:15 extremely useful in rwho environments, and standard behaviour on other OSes. > I don't, because it confuses other utilties like wall: > > wall: /dev/:0: No such file or directory wall needs to be fixed. > ...and both sessreg and the +ut option for *term work just great (if > you want them). So why do it, and how can you disable it short of > commenting out the offending source code every time I want to upgrade? vi /etc/pam.d/xdm DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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