On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 10:08 AM Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> Even if it's that simple, something is updating the traditional > /var/run/utmp and /var/log/wtmp files on Fedora and Ubuntu and at least > in some cases they work better than systemd does and this should be > fixed somehow. Applications are doing that via glibc. But this will go away with glibc 2.42, when this functions don't do anything anymore. And this will not happen if distributions don't create /run/utmp on boot. glibc only writes to this files if they exist, it will not create them. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk, Distinguished Engineer, Senior Architect, Future Technologies SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, Frankenstraße 146, 90461 Nuernberg, Germany Managing Director: Ivo Totev, Andrew McDonald, Werner Knoblich (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg)