On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 10:54:50PM -0300, Gustavo Rios wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> i am running two xterm. When i run from any of them the "w" command i got
> this:
>
> $ tty && w
> /dev/ttyp0
> 10:47PM up 8 mins, 2 users, load averages: 0.88, 0.50, 0.23
> USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT
> grios p0 :0.0 10:45PM 0 w
> grios p1 :0.0 10:46PM 0 -sh
> $
>
> $ tty && w
> /dev/ttyp1
> 10:48PM up 8 mins, 2 users, load averages: 0.75, 0.49, 0.23
> USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT
> grios p0 :0.0 10:45PM 0 -sh
> grios p1 :0.0 10:46PM 0 w
> $
>
>
> Now, from xterm terminal running over ttyp1, i start a new terminal,
> by means of rxvt. And the output from the same previous command
> execution is totally different:
>
> $ tty && w
> /dev/ttyp0
> 10:50PM up 10 mins, 2 users, load averages: 0.34, 0.44, 0.25
> USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT
> grios p0 :0.0 10:45PM 0 w
> grios p2 :0.0 10:48PM 0 -sh
> $
>
> $ rxvt &
> [1] 28321
> $ tty && w
> /dev/ttyp1
> 10:49PM up 9 mins, 2 users, load averages: 0.56, 0.49, 0.26
> USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT
> grios p0 :0.0 10:45PM 0 -sh
> grios p2 :0.0 10:48PM 0 -sh
> $
>
> $ tty && w
> /dev/ttyp2
> 10:49PM up 10 mins, 2 users, load averages: 0.44, 0.47, 0.25
> USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT
> grios p0 :0.0 10:45PM 0 -sh
> grios p2 :0.0 10:48PM 0 w
> $
>
>
> What i could not understand is: ttyp1 terminal was associated with a
> xterm terminal. From that terminal, after starting a rxvt process,
> that association was broken. Although i am still running xterm on
> ttyp1, it is not shown on any of the three screen output. What i was
> expecting it was to have an entry for the same login ("grios") on
> ttyp1.
>
> Anyhow, it does not make any sense to me.
>
> Thanks a lot for your time and cooperation.
>
> My .Xdefaults has the following relevant parts:
> *VT100.loginShell: true
> *VT100.scrollBar: off
> *VT100*colorULMode: on
> *VT100*underLine: off
> *VT100*colorBDMode: on
> *VT100*colorUL: red
> *VT100*colorBD: magenta
> *VT100*font: -misc-*-*-*-normal--*-*-*-*-c-*-*-*
> *VT100*background: black
> *VT100*cursorBlink: true
> *VT100*foreground: yellow
> *VT100*cursorColor: green
> *VT100*cursorOffTime: 200
> *VT100*cursorOnTime: 200
> *VT100.pointerColor: red
> *VT100.pointerColorBackground: black
>
> XTerm.termName: xterm
>
> Rxvt.loginShell: true
> Rxvt.scrollBar: off
> Rxvt*colorUL: red
> Rxvt*colorBD: magenta
> Rxvt*font: -misc-*-*-*-normal--*-*-*-*-c-*-*-*
> Rxvt*background: black
> Rxvt*foreground: darkgrey
> Rxvt*cursorColor: yellow
> Rxvt.pointerColor: red
Search the rxvt(1) page for 'utmp'. Essentially, unlike xterm, rxvt does
not write to utmp by default. use +ut/utmpInhibit: false to change this
behaviour, if desired.
Joachim
