On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, war wrote:

> Slackware Linux 9.0

on Slackware, utmp is owned by root, so xterm has to be setuid'd to root
so it can modify that file:

-rws--x--x    1 root     bin        246588 Mar  2 02:52 /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm

> GCC 3.3
>
>
> On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Thomas E. Dickey wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, war wrote:
> >
> > > I build the latest xterm (xterm-179) from
> > > http://invisible-island.net/xterm/.
> > >
> > > With and without --with-utemper option.
> >
> > What type of system?  (Linux, Unix, etc).
> >
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ w
> > >  12:05:27 up 18 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.13, 0.54, 0.62
> > > USER     TTY        LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
> > >
> > > (this is with the one I built)
> > >
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ w
> > >  12:05:47 up 19 min,  2 users,  load average: 0.30, 0.55, 0.62
> > > USER     TTY        LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
> > > war      pts/7     12:05    0.00s  0.03s  0.01s w
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
> > >
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps auxww|grep xterm|wc
> > >       8     155    1146
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
> > >
> > > How come my xterms do not show up when I type w or who, etc?
> > > But using the /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm works fine?
> > >
> > >
> >
> > --
> > T.E.Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > http://invisible-island.net
> > ftp://invisible-island.net
> >
>

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