Yes. I did try the ls option before. And It still does the same thing.

On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, oneiros wrote:
> >Thus spake Shao Zhang ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> >>    I have one xterm & one rxvt open. But when I typed the command
> >> 'w', I have only got one entry:
> >> USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU  WHAT
> >> s2193893 ttyp0    :0.0              9:28pm  0.00s  0.47s  0.07s  w 
> >>    The other entry from rxvt is somehow missing.
> >>    Is this normal??
> >You'll need to compile it with the --enable-utmp option, otherwise it will 
> >not
> >create the utmp entry that w(1) and a number of other utils look at to see 
> >the
> >login records.  Plus, in order to write to utmp, the rxvt binary needs to be
> >suid root.  utmp should never, ever be writable to anyone but root, so the
> >suid is needed in order for it to make this entry.  Thankfully, it gives up
> >root privileges immediately (before the window even opens), it there's no 
> >need
> >to worry.
> >Type rxvt -h to see if it's compiled in.  The list of compile time options 
> >are
> >listed in parenthesis to the right of the version.
> 
> Hmm dont believe I've ever had to recompile rxvt to have this. I'm running
> 95% hamm including hamm rxvt. Simply start rxvt with the -ls option..
> man rxvt
>     -ls|+ls
>       Start as a login-shell/sub-shell;  resource  login Shell.
> 
> [timberwolf:adren:~$]> date
> Thu Feb 11 07:56:56 EST 1999
> [timberwolf:adren:~$]> rxvt -ls&
> [2] 13311
> [timberwolf:adren:~$]> last -1
> adren    ttyp7        :0.0       Thu Feb 11 07:57   still logged in
> [timberwolf:adren:~$]> w 
> adren    ttyp7    :0.0           7:57am  1:11   0.36s  0.36s  -bash 
>               (with others....)
> 
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
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