On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 12:57:52PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: > 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?
rxvt has a compile-time option for wtmp/utmp support. Maybe that's where the distros differ... For testing purposes you might want to roll one your own rxvt (reasonably simple) without wtmp/utmp support and see if the problem/feature goes away. (Or, if you are lucky, the one from SuSe runs on Debian too...) Erdmut -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing gmbh -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --
