hey all,
want to help me figure something out? i am a former redhat/suse person
finally having ascended to debian. there is something peculiar that i
noticed which i cannot explain with my (pretty good) linux knowledge.
so on either suse or debian, i use xdm to start windowmaker after login
and i have some 20 or so rxvt's created for my convenience at startup.
on the suse machine, the finger output with a local windowmaker
session and a remote ssh login looks as follows:
Login Name Tty Idle Login Time Office Office Phone
madduck MaD dUCK *:0 Feb 18 10:42 Robot Lab 1-610-328x8618
madduck MaD dUCK pts/2 Feb 20 12:48 (d136.sproul.swarthmore.edu)
on my debian system, finger looks as follows:
Login Name Tty Idle Login Time Office Office Phone
madduck MaD dUCK :0 Feb 19 16:00 (console)
madduck MaD dUCK pts/0 19:16 Feb 19 16:01 (:0)
madduck MaD dUCK pts/2 19:15 Feb 19 16:02 (:0)
...
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...
any pointers?
thanks,
martin
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