On Sun, 17 Dec 1995, Stephen Early wrote: > Logging into wtmp is controlled by the loginShell resource (-ls command > line option), which also controls whether the shell that is started is a > login shell. I think that this should be false by default, and that the > xterm started in the Xsession script should have this flag explicitly set > to true. This prevents huge numbers of entries being made in wtmp for each > X session, and stops /etc/profile from being run for every xterm that is > started.
Okay, you make a good argument. I still think that utmp entries should be created by default, though.
