On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 12:57:52PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: > and a line for every terminal i opened on :0 > > why is this? what's different about wtmp/utmp (i presume) on > suse/redhat than on debian? i don't want finger to show 20+ logins of > my account when all i did was login once and opened xterms > otherwise...
this is because debian *terms register themselves in the utmp file. this is a feature, if the terms are not registered no other user can write(1) you. i personally find that a good thing YMMV. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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