Vincent Rivière <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> That sounds like one of the problems I worked around in xterm. >> If the update is not using all of the information, it will modify >> an obsolete entry in utmp.
> I don't have xterm on my system, only gnome-terminal. > The timestamp of my utmp file is not updated, thus no entry is updated, > either good or obsolete... > I found that gdm uses the "sessreg" command to update the utmp file, maybe > it is in cause ? Whatever program updates utmp, it still has to make the same sort of calls - and is subject to the same sort of bugs. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]