On 2025-02-17 10:39:09 +0100, Thorsten Kukuk wrote: > "who -d" shows which login processes exit without removing the utmp > entry and where the init process cleaned up the utmp entry instead. > Since no terminal is controlled by an init process, you should never > see any terminal listed. So I have my doubts that you ever saw there > terminal processes. And if yes, something was terrible broken with > your init and login process.
This is shown at least for xterm processes that have terminated and for closed SSH sessions. > > "who -u" also reports useful information, such as the idle time > > and the PID of the terminal process. The absence of utmp completely > > breaks this feature. > > Yes, and this feature never worked reliably if I look at all the old > bug reports for openSUSE. It seems to be reliable for xterm and SSH sessions (not for GNU Screen unfortunately). > This "feature" is very terminal centric and stopped already working > when people decided to use graphical applications and not terminals. But the goal is to use this for terminals only. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
