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Date:      Mon, 16 Aug 2004 10:28:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To:        =?gb2312?q?leo?= <trampeagle@yahoo.com.cn>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: why the command of "who" dosen't work while i login through xdm
Message-ID:  <20040816102637.B30211@carver.gumbysoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040813034317.56188.qmail@web15306.mail.bjs.yahoo.com>
References:  <20040813034317.56188.qmail@web15306.mail.bjs.yahoo.com>

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On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, [gb2312] leo wrote:

> Hello,
> The version of FreeBSD I use is 4.10.
>
> After I login the system through the xdm from a remote
> machine which runs the simulated X terminal.I start
> the kde enviornment in the .xsession file under the ~/
>  directory. after the kde started.I open konsole of
> kde(version 1.3.2) and type the command of who, and
> the konsole tells me that there nobody login to the
> system. neither i can see anybody has logined the
> system in the local terminal.It's a surpring
> phenomena.

konsole is not writing utmp entires it appears.  I'll have to check this
on my work box (which is on -CURRENT) but I think its fixed in later
versions of konsole.  The login records are a function of whatever spawns
the terminal, which is usually login(8) but in X its usually xterm.

its not fatal but can be disconcerting :)

-- 
Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org



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